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Thursday, November 13, 2003

still writing - ok, day 13. i am still writing. kind of. my discipline kicked off at the weekend, along with much of my motivation. even so my current word count is about 17000, which is a good 4000 behind. but it is ok. i don't mind.

i've fleshed out a lot of the initial ideas and got those down as words. there are some gaps tht need to be filled so that those first 17 chapters (in current form) flow as intended. but i've got those covered, those are not a worry.

however. fleshing the story out is an issue i am identifying. making the characters read as interesting as they are in my head - i can see/feel/hear/whatever some of the people, but i don't think i have really brought them enough to life. i'll work on that - more dialogue, more interaction.

still with fleshing the idea out. i need more of the back story. many of the prime characters are involved in an organisation. at least that is the inference, i think i need to back that up - to prove it. show some scenes more scenes where mysterious things happen. not that i don't have mysterious things happening anyway, i got mystery, or is that obscurity, coming out my ears!

as for the "prove it" urge, i am resisting the urge to dwell on explaining things too much. i have some things that happen, they just do. deal with it. no i don't know how, or why, and i suspect that trying to make it water tight is not the way forward. at least not at the moment. i'll just rely on faith, which is rich, coming from an athiest...

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