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Today's words were ridiculously hard and slow. However, I'm finally on the last scene of "Precipice," which is also the last batch of SRS POLITICS - there's one more intensely political scene, but I already know how that one's going to go thanks to celeloriel. "Fall" is all about tying up the things I've been setting up since the beginning of "Ascent," but ( Read more... )

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I broke 25,000 words today. I AM HALFWAY DONE. Well, with NaNo. I keep getting optimistic that I’ll finish the story around the time I hit 50K. Then I look at my outline and say dear self, what crack are you on? And will you share?

And this is not counting the informal write-in that I’m hosting tonight (I call them my “NaNo productivity ( Read more... )

Accomplished: Cleaning the apartment, daily allotment of words, dinner
Still to do: Yuletide letter (written, needs posting ( Read more... )

Word Count: 21,716
Page Count: 53
Outline Quality: Adding subplots again (this si celeloriel’s fault entirely)
Soundtrack Quality: Tense rather than angsty
Scene Worked On Most Recently: “This is How We Do Justice Here”
Scene to be Worked On Next: Work Work Work, Day After Day/Teaching Jalen
Research of the Day: Royal we, again. fucking linguistic ( Read more... )

This song is heinously appropriate for the scenes I’ve been writing. And, kind of, for the rest of the book.


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since when did my soundtrack for this novel change from the FF4 soundtrack, to Michael Ball and Michael Crawford??

Word Count: 18,386
Page Count: 46
Outline Quality: Complete! Nearly done with "Precipice," and "Fall" should be easier.
Soundtrack Quality: Finally less angsty, praise God.
Scene Worked On Most Recently: "The Aftermath"
Scene to be Worked On Next: "This is How We Do Justice Here"
Research of the Day: Proper forms of address, once again.
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am not liking these scenes. or rather, am not liking my proximity to Kain's headspace in these scenes. however, that character growth and development I've been working on for the last 70,000 words is starting to come to the fore, so soon I'll be all set.

And in probably another, oh, 50,000 words from now, I will be done with Lucis Ante Terminum ( Read more... )