Let's write!

O, hi! Resurfacing after Miniwrimo. I managed to log 17,881 words for the month, exceeding my 300 word a day goal and managing to average 596 words, low count was 304, highest was 4270, which was mostly transcribing an hour and a half or so dictating I did during a long drive to and from some clients. I think I managed to figure out what is going to happen during the three month gap I've been staring at. I was initially thinking it was going to be nothing much interesting and then this bit came out and I'm still trying to think of how it's going to affect the rest of the story.

This takes place a couple weeks before the end of the third and final term at Engama.

( Sacred Spaces, 876 words )

I don't know if I'll be finished come the end of December, but I'm closer than I was this time last year that is for sure! Closing in on 300 pages, which is exciting.

So how did November treat you all? I'm hoping to be a little more active here as I near the end of FFK and get ready to send it off to my client who is an editor and publisher. I have to get it a bit more finished first, but wish me luck.

Kallon has some serious PTSD to work through and has an incident as he travels with Yurrein to Lunais with the other Lunaisan hybrids. I doubt it's Kallon's first night terror, but it's the first one I've written about.

This is kind of revisiting challenge 111 with a fight scene.

( In 474 words )

Notes: Average Getier height in their human forms is beetween 5'4" and 5'8" (add a couple inches for ears in their half form) so interiors tend to not be much more than 6' especially when they're carving into the rock. Sray is somewhere between 5'10" and 6' (haven't made and official decision on that yet) because she is hybrid.

Klamon have a split sleeping pattern, being especially active around sunrise and sunset and sleeping in the afternoons and late at night for anywhere from three to five hours at a time.

( Returning to Geteilpohth in 834 words )

Miniwrimo is going well! Keeping up with and exceeding my counts thusfar!

Near the end of Fire Forged Key. It's a really big map that served no purpose other than Ranika Mishor wanted to make it.

( Maps are art, 701 words )

O, hey guys! Still pounding away on the novel so I'm definitely getting my minutes in, if not related to the challenges. Doesn't help my work hours have exploded so I'm having to eek time in even moreso than usual.

( A little dialog, but mostly fight between Kallon and Alekandler Triden, 964 words )

Still writing a bunch in my novel, but decided to take a brief break for some purple prose! This scene (if it were in the book) would be towards the end of chapter one.

( Teigan )

The purple prose made me realize that while I am sometimes verbose, I am not that verbose!

Y'all get some Tos Savin poetry. Keep in mind I hadn't written poetry since High School before this character came along... and of course he's lovesick.

What is the space between
Where I am and where you've been
What troubles have you seen
When you refused on me to lean

What pain filled my aching heart
When we drifted so far apart
What event was the start
Where did our paths part

What happened to that forgotten time
When I was yours and you were mine
What can I do but long and pine
Where does your soul now shine

Writing a lot, keep bouncing around book two.

( 262 words with music )

The spirit of the "you have to live with it" prompt I think.

( 536 Words )

Things to note: Yurrein Nelendor and Torrick Mawshinor (he has a full name now!), Torrick is Yurrein's first cousin. The Lunaisans hybrids follow their last names on their mother's side so either their fathers were brothers or it was brother/sister since their last names aren't the same, still fuzzy on that part.

( Yurrein pesters Torrick in the middle of the night in 1,164 words )

In other news finished my run-through and printed myself some fresh copy, 176 pages in the novel now! Very proud of myself. I may see this thing finished yet.