5K words on Blessing, that is. After a brief pause to write this update and check my mail, I’m going to get back to it. I easily have 45 minuts of quiet time tonight, and really more if I want to push it.
Looking more promising that I’ll finish it on time. I do have a week of vacation that starts over the last few days of submission, so that should help if I need a last minute push.
I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that, but it’s at least a little help waiting if I do need it.
Had a breakthrough on something that had me stalled on Blessing of the Wood. I was having trouble with the motivation for things that were going on, and the idea hit me out of the blue yesterday at work.
I’ve incorporated it into what I already had written and moved forward. I’m closing in on 4k words now, and going strong.
Always good, when you have both a deadline and a tradition looming over you. Hope to have more to report later this evening.
I had to put all my writing aside for a few days. When I hit one of those points where the words just don’t come, I get frustrated, and that makes it even harder, and it snowballs. So, I closed Wordperfect, the cover images, maps, and everything else, and relaxed for a while.
Opened things back up yesterday, and I’m moving forward on the Earth Day story, now retitled “Blessing of the Wood”
It’s flowing — thankfully — so I hope I’m back on track. Up to 3k words.
I’d hit another drag point in Sanctuary of the Wood, and had a brainstorm today at work that got me past it.
It’s amazing what a small change of location can do.
I moved the scene from the tree fort to the pond, and it’s moving along nicely. I was getting too distracted with the tree fort *laugh*
Had some flashes of inspiration on SOTM too. Things are about to come to a boil, and I’m going to hit something I’ve been anticipating for a long time. I’ve been wanting to tie a story into the larger narrative of Danica’s world ever since I wrote it, and knew how it was going to happen, but I just wasn’t at the right point in the story to do it.
That time is coming.
Really getting an itch to finish Lowborn as well, but Sanctuary has to have full front burner status until I finish it, because of the limited timetable and the long-standing tradition.
Experimenting with a few more things, but I’m close to having everything ready to get the LST3K pages online. The big interactive feature – uRiff – won’t debut with the initial rollout, but I’ll have most of the elements I need for it ready to start coding when I feel like it.
Many of those same elements will be useful in the behind-the-scenes collaborative riffer coding that will let me work in semi-real time with other people to riff on stories.
