Spontaneous Derivation

Not the most productive day I wanted, but I’ll be starting early tomorrow morning again. Just shy of 7k today, instead of the 8k I wanted to get over the 60k hump.

We’ll try again tomorrow.

Starting line of this block:

I wonder why I bothered to try reassuring him at all.

Ending line, for now:

We drove in on a ground car, one of the new ones modeled to look like Japanese Hybrids from the mid 21st century, so that we had the look but not the aging and, by now, unreliable machinery.

Graph!

I’ve got a lot to answer for tomorrow.

And now we start the final ending slog of the book.

This month has been quite a learning experience for me, and we’re not even ten days into it. In that time, I’ve been writing with a fury and passion that I’ve never attempted before, and some interesting items have been poked from the fires.

One in particular is that I didn’t know my characters well for over 50k words. I’m aware that this can be regarded as a sign of weakness. Trust me, I had worked out paths for them, and basic characteristics, and even goals and drive. I even had a little character growth chart for the main two characters.

Then, around Chapter 13, I realized my plans had defenestrated, and the characters emerging from my story as it whipped along were not quite the same people I had initially laid out. Cracks and twists appeared in them that I had not intended, and the plot took off for parts unknown, safely landing in Chapter 17, but not without a lot of collateral damage to the original outline.

So I didn’t know my characters for about 17 chapters, and only on the rewrite will I be able to make cohesive their individual paths and journeys.

Is that a bad thing?

I don’t know. Probably more an inexperienced thing.

Kind of thrilling though.

What about you?

Takes off gloves, wriggles fingers, warms up outline.

Be prepared for Word Count of Blinding Amounts today, tomorrow, and Sunday.

:continues to warm up: