Writing Update
532 words at lunch. I'm not sold on this set of words, but I'm leaving them until I think of something better. The transition from the street to outside the city gate is trickier than it should be.
As I'm writing, I'm seeing these in videogame cutscene format. There's no cutscene for the entirety of crossing the Sandsea in Final Fantasy XII, just the two or three important spots. But FF12 can bridge those with a bunch of random encounters, whereas I have to do it with words. It's sometimes tricky, and I need to not have a conversation or scene feel tacked on, which is how this feels. I'll give it some more brainwork tonight and maybe redo it tonight or tomorrow morning if something comes to me.
I've got the next four or five major scenes already in my head, though I'm not 100% sure that the first two chapters are interesting enough so far. I think a weekend project for me will be to read the first two chapters of every book on my shelf (or at least ten of them) and see how everyone else does it, and see what I can do about my opening to make it better at grabbing the reader. I absolutely love my opening line so I want to keep that, and my first chapter does have people drawing swords and guns and shouting at each other plus some property damage.
Maybe it's just Chapter 2 that sucks so far. Stop sucking, Chapter 2!
Okay, I'm done for the day. Back to work.
As I'm writing, I'm seeing these in videogame cutscene format. There's no cutscene for the entirety of crossing the Sandsea in Final Fantasy XII, just the two or three important spots. But FF12 can bridge those with a bunch of random encounters, whereas I have to do it with words. It's sometimes tricky, and I need to not have a conversation or scene feel tacked on, which is how this feels. I'll give it some more brainwork tonight and maybe redo it tonight or tomorrow morning if something comes to me.
I've got the next four or five major scenes already in my head, though I'm not 100% sure that the first two chapters are interesting enough so far. I think a weekend project for me will be to read the first two chapters of every book on my shelf (or at least ten of them) and see how everyone else does it, and see what I can do about my opening to make it better at grabbing the reader. I absolutely love my opening line so I want to keep that, and my first chapter does have people drawing swords and guns and shouting at each other plus some property damage.
Maybe it's just Chapter 2 that sucks so far. Stop sucking, Chapter 2!
Okay, I'm done for the day. Back to work.