3785 words and a character list
I fell short of the mark today. My goal is 2500 words daily, but I wrote only 1144 words. I'll have to make up for it on another day. My boyfriend, Bob, was nice and gave me time to work on it, but I had a hard time concentrating on the work. Plus I decided today that I needed to do some work on characterization. I wrote a list of all my characters for this novel (so far) and gave each of them at least three characteristics. Some got more. It was all very important work, but it detracted from my writing time.About this character list - I feel it is vital because I've written other novels and gotten confused midway because I'd forget what name I gave a character, or what the person looked like. In one novel I had a little dog and kept forgetting whether I'd made it black or orange. I think it is currently black.
I've been doing practice writing sessions too and have started a great collection of flash fiction pieces. I'm really excited about this. My short-short fiction is much better than it was a few years ago. Maybe someday I'll have enough of this to share in some type of format - a book of short stories, or a chapbook... something like that.
I started the day by starting a new revision of The Scribe of Irohila. I've forgotten if this is the fourth or fifth revision. I'll call it the fourth. I managed to cut a lot! I took out one entire long paragraph. I think that book I've been reading - The First Five Pages by Noah Lukeman - has given me a lot of insight on what needs to be changed.
Anyhow, I felt I got a lot of writing work done today while at the same time spending a lot of time with my boyfriend. It was a nice balance, and I won at our backgammon match tonight, so I'm having a good time.
Today my car stopped working, and I don't even care. I think it needs a starter or something attached to that system. I've got someone working on it, but this intense west coast rainstorm is slowing that process down. Looks like I might be doing some walking in the rain, but I'm okay with that. Walking is good for me and I have a raincoat and umbrella.
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