*Sigh* Guess who got behind on her word
count again this week?
Good grief, all I'm trying to do is
participate in life while I
also write as much as I can, when I don't have any other
obligations... And what happens? I end up not having time to write
until later in the evening (like usual) and I really haven't gone out
and participated in any write-ins this year (which I started doing
the last couple years and it worked really well... too bad!) which I
think made a huge difference (and a negative one) in my ability to
win...
Also? These stories
are being difficult!
The Last
Inkweaver
Current
Word Count: 108,175
By
"stories" of course, I mean this one. Hey! I made it to
100K, just like I hoped I would! The only thing is, I'm just barely
past the part with Ronni and the whole coup and whatnot, and while
Callista and the others are having good conversations and plenty of
character development happening in a gradual manner, not at all
rushed or contrived... It's also taking forever,
and I feel like I have to keep deferring on getting to the end as
chapter after chapter goes by and these segues don't happen like I
want them to!
I
think, though, that I don't really need to take back what I've
written, exactly. Like I said, it's good character development;
Matthias needs to learn that Callista is actually more capable than
he gives her credit for, and Callista needs to learn to self-advocate
and stand up for herself. The whole reason
I
justified leaving this little segment in there was to prove to
Callista that if she just lets go and accepts the Wordspinner-related
things happening to her, she will be stronger for it and it will
prepare her to progress through the next phase in her journey. In the
case of Matthias, I am about done with his continued obstinacy, and
the fact that he thinks he can just go through life picking and
choosing what he wants to believe and demanding proof before he
accepts something as "real"... and the moment he starts
believing that, and trusting Callista when she starts trying to take
charge and move forward based on the direction she's getting, the
more they can start working together as a cohesive unit.
Here's
the struggle with that: I know why
the
things are there, and I know what it's leading
to...
but it's the "segue" part I'm bad at. And it's that part
that is getting me bogged down right now. I just need to get through
it to the other side--without glossing over important parts, because
if I give in and start glossing over, it will be obvious
that
I'm rushing things and readers will know! So I have to knuckle down
and just keep on going.
Wish me luck as I move from Ronni to Tark! Luckily, there isn't much
subtlety that has to go on with his part... and Callista is about
ready to come into her own, so once the pieces are set up, it
shouldn't need much of a push to knock 'em all down!
A Writer's Tale
#3: The Sheriff's Showdown
Current
Word Count: 7,291
I
suppose my biggest disappointment and the thing that keeps nagging at
me is the same old feeling of "Not Being Able To Finish
Something." I managed to finish The
Amazon Triangle in
just over 100K, so the fact that I've written that much on The
Last Inkweaver and
I'm still not
done is... frustrating, to say the least. I can keep reminding myself
that it will all be worth it in the end... but dear me! If a book is
a "writer's baby" then that
book
going to be one "fat
baby"! More
than 100K words and I'm still within 4 or 5 chapters of the end of
it... Slowly but surely, it's all coming together!
The
end is near, December is coming... and this weekend is my last-ditch
effort to get caught up, and from there to get ahead, because if I
can pull that off, then I have a chance at winning, in spite of
everything that has happened so far... wish me luck!
Catch You Further Upstream!
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