Five tough hours, only about 300 words or so in productive moving forward. I have done a lot of thinking through motivations of the “big bad guys” here today, though.  The problem here stemmed from me asking myself a fairly simple “what if” question about an AI element of the world I’m creating.  The answer […]

Managed a hair’s breadth less than a thousand words this morning, the good news and bad news is that a lot of this was an expository dump of story infrastructure in almost outline level detail.  It’s bad news in that I’ll need to go back and expand it out–present it in better and more interesting […]

Just over 800 words this morning, which meets my minimum expectation.  I spent much of the morning fleshing in a little of the details of recent pages, which expanded word count in a good way, but I feel like I’m shying back from the next big movement of the story.  We’ll see what tomorrow brings.  […]

The main character finds a way to deepen his plot twist, and the second lead gains a fresher life (to me anyway).  This will be helpful as we move into the end game.  The third character waits in the wings, nearly ready to play his part. This is getting fun again. # Just over 1200 […]

Well, it’s not going to last long, but I admit fully that it’s fun to see my word count raise up past both Brigid and Lisa’s.  Nick the Wonderboy’s word count is clearly out of my range … but what the heck.  Had to post now while I could say I’m in second.  [grin] # […]

Interim Post (11:14 AM) — My real progress today is better than the 1,000 words I get to claim.  What this means is that at present the sum total of my body of work is just over 1,00 words more than it was, but in reality I stripped away probably 1,000 words, and added back […]

Interim Post — Managed nearly 3200 words so far.  The main dude senses things around him might be deeper than what he was originally thinking.  Today represents his first full attempt to wrest away some control of his environment.  Will it work?  Maybe.  Maybe not.  All I can say for sure is that things are […]

Interim post – 12:47 — Just returning for a brief stint after lunch and before working out.  This morning went quite well, notching just under 2200 words.  This included time spent doing some re-arranging, which is necessary now that I actually think I know what the hell I’m writing.  I have more of that to […]