The novel started giving me problems. I got it moving again, but now I'm going back and filling in about 10k of back story that I hadn't told. That's fine. It's all but done anyway at 40k without it. I can't do that.
But it leaves me with another problem -- what will I do with the rest of the month? Another novel? I don't know. I really don't. I think I might like to write a Devlin novel if I can come up with one. She's fun to work with.
Or... just had an odd idea of taking all the characters from my IWC worlds and writing about 2k worth of story about each one. Kind of a 'what would they do if' sort of situation. Oh, I like that one. Very much so. Maybe I can use a random idea generator for it.
Hell. I think this might be fun.
Okay, so I need to finish Feather first. I can do that. About 8 more now.
A small snippet:
Outside the snow had been cleared from close to the building. That had to be a lot of work, but it made it easier to patrol.
He ran into Davis at the side of the building. The older man gave a startled yelp and then laughed.
"Damn, you're still too quiet, Feather. Good to see you on your feet again."
"Can't say that I'll be here for long," he said.
"I want to go do some scouting," Davis said. "Back to look for Georgia and off along the northwest -- I think I found a trail there that might lead to where these people have gone."
"Find us help," Feather said, and bit at his lip. "I don't know, Davis. You're the best hope these people have of surviving."
"They have you."
"No, they don't. You know that, or else you wouldn't be worried about going off and leaving them." Feather looked into his face. Then he sighed. "But you think that we don't have a chance staying here, do you?"
"Not for much longer. Food is not going to hold up for more than a few more days. We've been careful, but three days here already --"
"Three days? Damn. I don't really remember any of it. Davis, if I weren't here at all, what would you do?"
"Tell them to do the best they can, and I'd be back when I could."
"Then do the best you can. Don't be gone for more than three days."
Davis nodded, stepped forward, and then put a hand on his shoulder and looked into his eyes. "Stay with us, Lt. Wind. They may need you."
He left before Feather could say anything more. He stood there, watching the figure disappear too quickly into the snow. Damn. Probably a mistake. Probably --
"You did that well, Feather."
He turned to find the Captain coming around the building.
"He should have talked to you, not me."
"He did. I left it up to him as well. He waited to see what would happen with you, I think. I don't know if he really thought he needed your permission, or if he just needed to think that you would be here for the rest of us, so that he would go with a clear conscious. I think he's done the right thing, though. I know that we need help."
Feather nodded and started walking again. The Captain moved with him. They didn't talk this time.
And the snow fell....
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I have to know, how do you manage to write between 2k to 10k a day? What keeps you moving? Is it your planning? Enthusiasm for your project? Just making yourself sit down and do it?
Please tell me your secret! :D
Amy --
I write every day anyway. I love to write. I want to tell the story and I want to have it all done, because what good is a partly written story?
I do my best to choose stories that I absolutely want to tell, but even so, sometimes they start lagging. Feather in the Wind was that way for a while, but it's picked back up again. And I do outline, so I'm not often stuck with an 'what now' problem. I'm about to write 5k of something totally not in the outline, but that's all right, too. Outlines are road maps: they show you where you want to go, but that doesn't mean you won't take an occasional detour and side trip to see something interesting that just popped up.
Devon:
I have two rules for writing:
1. Finish everything I start.
2. Finish everything within one year.
This means I don't have unfinished stories sitting around. I had not planned on this being a 3 book month. I've never tried anything like that before. But the piece I'm going to work on (which I am working out in my head while I finish up this other book), is going to be something very different. A major incident, and how it affects people as they are either involved or hear about it.... I'll have at least 25 characters from various books set in this particular universe, and that means I'll only have to write about 2k for each one in order to make 50,000 words and be able to call it a NaNo novel.
Otherwise I could go and finish my one novel that I'm not done with for the year that I was working on in October -- but then I'd have to come up with something in December as well, so I'm just going to hold on to it and finish it out at the end of the year.
And then on January 1 everything starts over again. (grin)
I do love writing, the act and the fruits, I just have such a Hard Time making myself sit down and DO it. It's really frustrating, and I know it's so much to do with my proctrastination problems.
Anyway, I really admire you for undertaking three whole novels in a month. It's pretty freakin' cool. ;)
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