Ha! You thought I was just going to update on odd days. So I'm a day behind, but it feels like two, because if you stay up a whisker past midnight to catch yesterday's writing goal, it looks like you shit the bed again on word count. So that's what I did. I updated about thirty minutes after midnight and so my words didn't go on that day's account, but they went on the day's before. So now I have to write my ass off tonight before midnight so I can stop looking like I'm two days behind when I'm not. I mean I'm a procrastinator, sure, but I don't want credit when I'm not actually procrastinating yet. That's an insult to my true skill.
I'm officially hitting the end of my four-chapter outline. We'll see what kind of corner I write myself into now. At least I do have all the pivotal scenes figured out in some sketchy manner. I'm not sure exactly how to stitch them together, and I'm also not sure how to end those chapters in ways that force you to keep reading against your will. I'll do my best though. I think I've hit that note okay for the endings of the first three, and maybe not every one of them has to go that route. Later in the book, it should get much easier to do that. As it stands, I'm working with only two POV characters, and they are together. I have to tell you that makes it a giant pain in the ass to figure out whose head I should be in now. They're going to be traveling together for some time, I guess maybe I need to figure out a reason to split them up a bit to make it not feel so eenie-meenie-miney-moe-ish, and give a real reason I didn't just make this book first person. I know the answer to that, and the answer is that I wanted to, but so many people have this deep aversion to first person perspective. I know I do, at least if I don't like the character.
So, I have 1000 more words to write before midnight tonight to be caught up to where I should've made it yesterday. I may skip lunch and write some at work again, but I am a little ware about doing any work on this while someone else is paying me. This way they're technically not (really so, since i'm only getting paid for half-time, but working full time), and I don't think that even if anyone knew they would come and say, "The German government demands the $0.40 you owe us for the dismal ebook sales of this novel you self-published while working on our dime." But on the off chance that it ends up being a hit that makes J.K. Rowling look like she's working for small change, in that case I don't want any evidence linking me with anything fishy that might lend credence to a claim like that. In fact, please forget that you read this entry.
I'm officially hitting the end of my four-chapter outline. We'll see what kind of corner I write myself into now. At least I do have all the pivotal scenes figured out in some sketchy manner. I'm not sure exactly how to stitch them together, and I'm also not sure how to end those chapters in ways that force you to keep reading against your will. I'll do my best though. I think I've hit that note okay for the endings of the first three, and maybe not every one of them has to go that route. Later in the book, it should get much easier to do that. As it stands, I'm working with only two POV characters, and they are together. I have to tell you that makes it a giant pain in the ass to figure out whose head I should be in now. They're going to be traveling together for some time, I guess maybe I need to figure out a reason to split them up a bit to make it not feel so eenie-meenie-miney-moe-ish, and give a real reason I didn't just make this book first person. I know the answer to that, and the answer is that I wanted to, but so many people have this deep aversion to first person perspective. I know I do, at least if I don't like the character.
So, I have 1000 more words to write before midnight tonight to be caught up to where I should've made it yesterday. I may skip lunch and write some at work again, but I am a little ware about doing any work on this while someone else is paying me. This way they're technically not (really so, since i'm only getting paid for half-time, but working full time), and I don't think that even if anyone knew they would come and say, "The German government demands the $0.40 you owe us for the dismal ebook sales of this novel you self-published while working on our dime." But on the off chance that it ends up being a hit that makes J.K. Rowling look like she's working for small change, in that case I don't want any evidence linking me with anything fishy that might lend credence to a claim like that. In fact, please forget that you read this entry.
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