another milestone
May. 13th, 2009 03:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_towerNow we're at 20K. Once upon a time, this would have been a fifth of a book; since this novel's planned for 140K, it's a seventh.
That feels like quite a bit less.
But I made some interesting decisions in tonight's writing, like answering the question of "how will this character find out about this otherwise well-concealed thing?" with the tidy solution of "they'll tell him." I need to make sure they have good reasons for that, of course, but it'll be easier than contriving a reason he can stumble across it on his own. And this gives me a chance to spin a particular element of the Onyx Court in a direction I haven't taken it before. When you're writing a series, these things matter.
Now, however, we go into the Month of Unpredictable Progress. I'll be on the road, without my research materials or a quiet place to work half the time, so for the next four weeks, 1K/day goes out the window. I'll get what I can get, when I can get it. And then in mid-June we'll see what good that semi-composting time has done me.
(Hopefully a lot.)
Word count: 20,718
LBR census: Love (of the puppy-dog sort) and rhetoric (of the rebellious sort).
Authorial sadism: Knowing how to hook Irrith.
That feels like quite a bit less.
But I made some interesting decisions in tonight's writing, like answering the question of "how will this character find out about this otherwise well-concealed thing?" with the tidy solution of "they'll tell him." I need to make sure they have good reasons for that, of course, but it'll be easier than contriving a reason he can stumble across it on his own. And this gives me a chance to spin a particular element of the Onyx Court in a direction I haven't taken it before. When you're writing a series, these things matter.
Now, however, we go into the Month of Unpredictable Progress. I'll be on the road, without my research materials or a quiet place to work half the time, so for the next four weeks, 1K/day goes out the window. I'll get what I can get, when I can get it. And then in mid-June we'll see what good that semi-composting time has done me.
(Hopefully a lot.)
Word count: 20,718
LBR census: Love (of the puppy-dog sort) and rhetoric (of the rebellious sort).
Authorial sadism: Knowing how to hook Irrith.
