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Jun. 19th, 2010 11:19 pmAdded a little shy of 500 words to the flesh-eating bacteria story. Some of the pace was dictated by me going back and tinkering with previous words a fair bit, which doesn't represent itself easily in a word count. More, it was because I'm having trouble keeping this entire thing in my head at once, which is another hint that it might want to be a novel.
But it's not, at least not yet. 28,450 words. I'd really hoped to have a first draft of this done by the end of the month, but I dunno. )-:
I think part of the difficulty is that just about everybody -- good guys *and* bad guys -- are operating under a whole bunch of bad assumptions and/or misinformation, and it's different for each of them, so I have to keep in my head not only what's really going on, but what each of them *thinks* is going on, and how what each of the rest of them is doing is pushing them either closer to or farther from the truth.
I think I need to kill off some more people so I have less to keep track of. Adding that to tomorrow's to-do.
(Also, my rather hapless main character has a love interest. Sheesh, the things these characters get up to when the writer is away from the keyboard...)
But it's not, at least not yet. 28,450 words. I'd really hoped to have a first draft of this done by the end of the month, but I dunno. )-:
I think part of the difficulty is that just about everybody -- good guys *and* bad guys -- are operating under a whole bunch of bad assumptions and/or misinformation, and it's different for each of them, so I have to keep in my head not only what's really going on, but what each of them *thinks* is going on, and how what each of the rest of them is doing is pushing them either closer to or farther from the truth.
I think I need to kill off some more people so I have less to keep track of. Adding that to tomorrow's to-do.
(Also, my rather hapless main character has a love interest. Sheesh, the things these characters get up to when the writer is away from the keyboard...)
