Managed to get 2,012 words so far. Word count is up to 96,830. Going to take a couple hour break and then I’ll get back at it.
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Hit A Wall
Two things. I realized that I forgot a big nugget that I was supposed to include in the Lucien/Cornell/Thane fight. Because of this forgotten bit and the general lack of punch that the fight has, I’m going to have to rewrite a large chunk of that scene. I didn’t want to do that last night because I wanted to push forward with the story.
Which brings us to number two. I’ve got Thane and Demarco in the car together, they’re supposed to talk about what Demarco was promised by the vampires and then Thane gives him the big, “why you don’t want to be a vampire” speech. The problem is that I went to write that sceen and couldn’t remember any of the stuff I’d wanted to touch on with the scene. I banged my head on the screen for three hours last night and didn’t get anything out of it. I’m going to let it stew in the pot that is my head all day and really bang it out tonight. I think Tasha is going out tonight, so I should have the house to myself. I’m hoping to get lots of words tonight.
I really need to crank the words this weekend. I’m going to get 2,000 today and 4,000 saturday and sunday. That means 10,000 new words by this time Monday and I’ll be over the 100,000 word mark. Wish me luck.
2 Dead, 2 in the Car
Well, I’ve used up both my days off for this week. Not that I really had any to spare. If I was going to finish A Difficult Dinner by the end of the month I really needed to do 2,000 words a day. Which I have not. Anyway, I wrote some words yesterday, 1,362 of them to be exact. Thane and Demarco are in the car headed back to Detroit. Lucien and Cornell are dead. It’s time for a heart to heart between the boys and somewhere along the ride home we’re going to have a little intervention from the colonial vampires, that’d be Cole and his folks. Things are winding up to the big finish.
LAUNCH Revisited
So I’m listening to LAUNCHcast Radio and rating my songs and just having a good old time when all of the sudden it stops and gives me a pop-up that say’s I’ve exceeded the usage limit of their free service for the month. What? I’ve only been listening to it for two weeks, maybe three. I’m reevaluating my endorsement of this product. I’m not going to pay for their service and I’m not going to listen to their preprogrammed stations at a lower sound quality and no song skipping. Just thought you should know what to expect when you run out of free time. I for one will be going back to MSN radio on the mediaplayer until next month.
Sore Eyes Equals No Writing
Left work early yesterday to go to my appointment with the optometrist. He looked me over and pronounced me good to go on the lasic. The dilation exam, however, played havoc with me the rest of the day. I still don’t think my pupils have retracted to their normal state. I couldn’t read, watch TV, or work on the computer last night because of the aggravation it caused my eyes. Too much concentration caused my head to throb, so last night was a complete waste. No writing, no games, I did struggle through a complete viewing of ‘Smokey and the Bandit’ on AMC. Been a long time since I’ve seen it, it’s still a fun movie.
I finished Bangkok 8 on audio CD, not really sure how I feel about it. The writing was good, but a lot of the stuff I wanted to see come about in the story didn’t happen. It was really more of a character study than a whodunit, not that I was looking for a mystery. Now I’m listening to Edge of Danger by Jack Higgins. In the beginning I didn’t really like this book, I thought it was going to glorify terrorism by showing the pride and honor of the Rashid family. But since it’s now turned to concentrate on Sean Dillion and how he can foil the Rashid’s plan I’m really starting to like it. Halfway through it, only 3 more disks left.
This is going to be one long day. My eyes are already starting to feel sore as I look at the screen.