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A Race to the Ever Receding Finish Line!
And progress continues. As much as I would love to be an every day writer, the only time I succeed in that is when my only writing project is...well...writing. As long as I am writing, editing, critiquing, researching markets, sending queries/stories, etc. I should just resign myself to this sporadic progress. This week shows a nice jump due to a 48-hour word count marathon. It would have been higher, but I was also working on outlines for two other novels to have on hand when I finish this novel.
As far as Bring Out Your Dead goes, things for poor Wardah have only gotten worse. She doesn't know why, but she has a pretty good idea. She's wrong, but I'm not sure whether that will ever become clear in the story, one of the limits of the single POV. That said, so far, the single POV is holding up for me. Things are happening to her enough to keep people going, I hope, though hope is the one thing I have stolen from her. As of now, everything she had to hope for is gone and she will spiral into despair and then a feral state. Now that'll be an interesting challenge. I've written a blind character, I've written characters who cannot speak the local language, but feral? We'll have to see how that goes :).
For those of you watching the word count, the total has gone up and then down again, and I added a few scenes, though not many.
And stats:
76 scenes
45 complete - 59% of the novel
31 remain
103056 Estimated length - with an average of 1356 words per scene.
61020 Current Total
As far as Bring Out Your Dead goes, things for poor Wardah have only gotten worse. She doesn't know why, but she has a pretty good idea. She's wrong, but I'm not sure whether that will ever become clear in the story, one of the limits of the single POV. That said, so far, the single POV is holding up for me. Things are happening to her enough to keep people going, I hope, though hope is the one thing I have stolen from her. As of now, everything she had to hope for is gone and she will spiral into despair and then a feral state. Now that'll be an interesting challenge. I've written a blind character, I've written characters who cannot speak the local language, but feral? We'll have to see how that goes :).
For those of you watching the word count, the total has gone up and then down again, and I added a few scenes, though not many.
And stats:
76 scenes
45 complete - 59% of the novel
31 remain
103056 Estimated length - with an average of 1356 words per scene.
61020 Current Total
if anyone can you can
I read a wonderful young adult book, damned if I can remember the name, but she also wrote a book called "The Eye, The Ear, and....the something" (helpful, I know)... about a young girl, who left her small village to take a boat down a river to find her real father. It was a difficult journey... her grandmother had assured it would only take two days at the most. She encountered so many obstacles, and ended up - well, pretty much feral, surviving from day to day, afraid of animals and people alike until she made her way to her destination. I was awed at the power of the book. She lived with orangutans and made herself like them, copied them, so that she would not be killed. This was just a child! So I can imagine the possibilites for you.
Sounds like a wonderful project. I can't wait to read some of it. :)
--snoopy
Re: if anyone can you can
That sounds like a cool book. If you can remember the title, tell me please.
I just wish circumstances rather than people made her this way. Poor Wardah was just subject to a malicious prank this morning that meant she spent the night on the cold floor :(. I promise I'll be nice to some character, somewhere. I'm a nice person...really I am :).
Re: if anyone can you can
(Anonymous) 2005-10-20 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)Good luck with all your NaNo stuff,
Snoopy
Eep!
Cheers,
Margaret