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Nano Day 2 Updates
Nov. 2nd, 2012 05:19 pmHealing front: I woke up fully able to breathe through my nose, which was a blessed relief because I hate sounding like a mouth-breather and I look silly breathing through my mouth. Also, the glassy-eyed, confounded look I always wear during headcolds is always such a hit around the office, you know. So the fact that I’m mostly dry-nosed and only coughing a little is a relief. I’m knocking back fluids, I promise.
Writing front: switched from Bank Job to Abbey 07, which meant going from flantering to fighting, and that sucks. I always feel like a fraud whilst writing hand-to-hand combat because it’s hard to translate individual motions to the page while keeping the pace furious and frantic. I’ve sent a few snippets to my beta and he says they’re intense, which I’m taking to mean I’m doing something right. It’s just very slow-going when I have seven characters in three high-risk situations/four locations, talking back and forth to each other, plus one character is fighting for her life and another is defusing a bomb and multiple villains are showing up…
It’s a picnic, let me tell you. But I’ve got fans that I know love this story above all, so I’m shoving my feelings about Downton Abbey aside and sticking to my guns, no matter how I feel about this season (read: I don’t like it). I want to do right by these characters and this story.
Tomorrow I have to clear some stuff up at the DMV, so that will be fun in the morning, but the parents are taking the youngest sister and I out to dinner to celebrate our birthdays (hers was Thursday, mine was last month), so I’m looking forward to that. I hope to hit up a write-in on Sunday because it’s at a St. Louis Bread Co and I love their Mac’n’Cheese. Hopefully by then my cold will be completely gone!
Current wordcount: 4717 words
Current project: The Abbey 07
Project on deck: The Abbey 08
Writing front: switched from Bank Job to Abbey 07, which meant going from flantering to fighting, and that sucks. I always feel like a fraud whilst writing hand-to-hand combat because it’s hard to translate individual motions to the page while keeping the pace furious and frantic. I’ve sent a few snippets to my beta and he says they’re intense, which I’m taking to mean I’m doing something right. It’s just very slow-going when I have seven characters in three high-risk situations/four locations, talking back and forth to each other, plus one character is fighting for her life and another is defusing a bomb and multiple villains are showing up…
It’s a picnic, let me tell you. But I’ve got fans that I know love this story above all, so I’m shoving my feelings about Downton Abbey aside and sticking to my guns, no matter how I feel about this season (read: I don’t like it). I want to do right by these characters and this story.
Tomorrow I have to clear some stuff up at the DMV, so that will be fun in the morning, but the parents are taking the youngest sister and I out to dinner to celebrate our birthdays (hers was Thursday, mine was last month), so I’m looking forward to that. I hope to hit up a write-in on Sunday because it’s at a St. Louis Bread Co and I love their Mac’n’Cheese. Hopefully by then my cold will be completely gone!
Current wordcount: 4717 words
Current project: The Abbey 07
Project on deck: The Abbey 08
