Day 11
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14,641 / 50,000
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I’ve started to institute some semblance of a schedule on myself – I get up, job search, write the blog post about the day before, then I have time free for whatever, followed by stopping whatever at around 9 to get ready to write by 9:30 or 10. Usually, with the two hours until 12 (plus about a half hour since I always start late), I can get over my word count done. Which is my aim, since I am something like 3,000 words behind, and I’m trying to slowly pare it down until I’m back on track. Most nights I get somewhere near 2000 words, which means I’m taking off about 400 words from the 3,000, so I’m making good time. I think I will throw myself a one-lady-party when it finally gets down to 2,000. I include the 3000 in my daily goal too – so whenever I look at my goal, it is some obscene number in the 5,000 range. It will be a fine, fine day when that finally gets back to a normal amount.
This current chapter is a beast. Each scene is taking up by word count each night. It looks at other novels and thinks it could take them. It eats Volume 1 chapters for breakfast. It is like the Jabba the Hutt of chapters, only without the dancing slave girls and Han Solo in carbonite. But the best thing about it is that I finally have broken out my pirate playlist – Drunken Sailor – on seeqpod. I’ve been writing with it on for the past few days – ever since I got past the kiss scene, which was the second scene in this chapter. I believe I’ll be starting the sixth scene tonight. The pirates have not officially shown up yet – they will technically be in the last two scenes, but we won’t have a true pirate chapter until volume 4.
Snippet:
Teja heard a splash behind them and jumped off his lap, racing to the rail. She was enthralled by the merfolk that dogged the ship – the front end caused her great confusion, but one glimpse at the tail caused her to mew in excitement, as if she thought there was a great tuna swimming below, just waiting to be her dinner. The reappearance of the human end distressed her, and she hissed in fear, looking over towards Arduus to see if he could come save her, should she get into a mess she could not handle. He laughed, and she haughtily turned her kitten face away from him to let him know he had fallen into disfavor.
