August 02, 2003
Famous last words...
That minor character is stepping up to at least supporting character, I think. She's going to tell Alex everything she needs to know about the history of Jack's little group, including what happened to Jack's father. In the meantime, she's amusing me greatly. Another 1,000 words this afternoon, putting me right back on track for my 1,500 words a day. Woohoo!
Milestones
The faerie research paid off today, if only to get an amusing anecdote about a minor character. Of course, she's minor NOW, but who knows what she'll be fifty pages from now.
Speaking of pages, I crossed two big milestones today: 30,000 words and 100 pages (I average about 300 words a page). In my mind, I have the storyline divided up into thirds. I've also just crossed into the second third of the novel. I don't know yet if my 'thirds' will actually be equal in size at all, but it's nice to have some sort of concrete reference point for where I am.
I didn't get to post yesterday since my site was down. Yesterday was pretty interesting. A nifty subplot or two revealed themselves, and I made myself cry while writing one scene--it was all very sad for one of the characters. Word count has been down a little bit this week, but I'm thinking I'll regain some ground this afternoon. Heck, I've already regained some ground.
And speaking of milestones, yesterday was the two year anniversary for this journal. I can't believe it's been that long! Looking back through the archives, I was a little sad to see that I was still working on some of the same stories back then as I'm struggling with now. Yikes.
