accomplishedWords: 4,051.
Total words: 38,629.
Reason for stopping: finished chapter eleven.
Music: mostly the Counting Crows and random selections from Verity's playlist.
Lilly and Alice: really interested in the bedroom window.
Well, we're still a novella by SWFA rules, since we're still shy of that magical 40,000 word mark...but we're getting closer every step of the way, and best of all, I don't feel like any of it is padding. Yes, I'll probably lose the standard 10% in the final revisions, but right now, everything that's in the text is there because it needs to be there. It's got a good beat, and you can dance to it.
Welcome to chapter eleven, where Verity and Dominic meet more of the family, Sarah is creepy, and I get to go more in-depth on the cuckoos, aka "my favorite horribly creepy and upsetting cryptid race (now with bonus central characters)." I love it when my creepy is actually integral, rather than being sort of like parasitic mistletoe: interesting to look at, gradually killing the tree. But dude, it's up to a hundred and thirty-seven pages of gooey cryptid goodness, and I am a happy, happy girl.
July 28 2009, 22:13:30 UTC 7 years ago
July 28 2009, 22:14:04 UTC 7 years ago
...but perhaps a spiritual descendant.
July 28 2009, 22:23:28 UTC 7 years ago
July 28 2009, 22:24:07 UTC 7 years ago