Necia's Writerly Rambling

Feel free to comment. This has not been edited.

It is rough and unedited and more than likely will NEVER make it to the final draft. I was exploring the way these two characters interact.

Valen is a swordsman and is of a race called Rahaun, loosely based on elves.
Trisha is a hume (a human with a very distant Rahaun ancestor)

( cut to spare the flist )

**hands out cloth to wipe blood from eyes

I was going to call it a night after I passed 36k but I am now closer to 37k and am unwilling to stop when I am sooooo close.




The focus switches over to the Windwalkers and is hopping back and forth between them. The Windwalker mc is named Nami and she rides(is partnered with) this huge bird that looks in my mind's eye like an Osprey only much larger. Now this is rough so please pardon the suckedness....

( She wanted to see where the Islands were )

I made up for no counts the past couple days by kicking out 3125 words today, tonight actually.

Snip ahead

( opps forgot to put it behind the cut. )

this brings my nano count to 19147 words of suck. :)

For some reason I am having issues. I am not being very dedicated to the number of words I am writing. What I mean is, I keep spacing on how many words I am writing exactly. In word wars I have found myself just writing and at the end when we tally it up I realize that whoops! I forgot to get the wc before starting.


Doesn't really matter I guess, I just passed 16k last night. **insert banana dancing here** but whats more is that the story is being told. I like this story very much. And it seems to be working out well. I feel like I am getting a good grip on the nature of storytelling. On how to tell the story I want to tell. On how to focus on the part of the story I want to tell and on resisting those nifty not-going-anywhere subplots that my older work is riddled with.

I will get a hang of this stuff. Really I will.


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I was too beat last night to post this.

Forbidden Island; Nano 2009

16022 / 50000 words. 32% done!

( SNIP of Suckage! )

Happy nanoing folks!

I write first thing in the morning and before bed after the munchkins are asleep. I have been doing a piss poor job of keeping track.

So I just started recording each chapter size. I seem to be doing a chapter a day or so. When I started to tot was 12379. Now that my morning words have been written I have a total of 14316. You guys do that math, I gots to run to the store. But here is a snip for you. and yes this is suckitude (OH NOES! THE FIRST DRAFT SUCKS ISN'T THAT A SHOCK?)

( Cut to spare bleeding eyes )

and yes I need to do some more research into pacific islander weapons but for now I got to run to the store.