Wait, what? Today is day 11. You didn't really think I was gonna blog every day seeing a 'day 1' post, did you? If you did, I sincerely apologize. I've been writing my novel instead of blogging; and I've gotta say it's going quite well. At the risk of being, as one of my friends put it, 'fad-alicious' I've got vampires and werewolves (and a variety of other creatures of that ilk, but these two seem to classify the entire book automatically) in my novel. Don't worry, I haven't set up teams or anything.
So, today I broke the 20,000 word mark, which is pretty cool. I'm a little ahead, but I'll need it for tomorrow, where I don't anticipate getting any writing done for An Odyssey of Shadows, I'll be working on Aspect instead. It's quite a breakneck pace I've set for myself this month, trying to simultaneously write two novels, one for assessment, the other under severe time constraint, but I'm getting it done. December will feel like a big holiday by comparison (I hope).
Around 20,000 words, I'm finally reaching a scene I've been planning for a long time, one that I've been really excited about. Thankfully, I do also have some plans for what happens afterwards, so I don't just grind to a screeching halt once the awesome is over. After all, there's still room for everything I've done so far, doubled up again, and then 50% again, so there needs to be a lot more story. But by introducing a few new characters that I can edit earlier references to in later, I think I've given some serious longevity to my overall character arcs.
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