annoyedWords: 3,080.
Total words: 4,195.
Reason for stopping: I finished chapter one.
Music: weird covers and salsa music, mostly.
Lilly: asleep in the bed.
Good news: I have finished the first chapter of Discount Armageddon, part one in the story of Verity 'Very' Price, possibly the world's only professional salsa dancer-slash-cryptozoologist (which is a combination that very rarely comes up on Craig's List). Chapter one of a brand new book, all finished and shiny!
Bad news: Yeah, I totally wrote that from the wrong POV. I was trying to experiment with actually writing a book in the third person for a change, and while that's an awesome goal that will one day be accomplished -- probably with Nativity of Chance -- this is not the book to accomplish it with. Just for giggles, I translated a few paragraphs from third person to first person, and was suddenly handed a great big bucket of awesome. Let that be a lesson to me.
Good news: I figured out what I was doing wrong after 4,000 words, not 40,000 words, and with me, that's always a bit of a risk. So while I'm going to have to do a lot of revision and rewriting and reframing, it's going to be a lot lighter and less painful than it might otherwise have been. Again, this is the good news part of our program.
Bad news: The fact that I need to do this at all is going to set me back several days in my overly-ambitious personal timeline. But again, that's okay; it means I won't get another fifty pages of text finished and wind up going 'aw, shit' as I'm forced to tear it all out and throw it all away. Flashbacks and prior-to-current-generation material remains third person, everything else, going straight to first.
And that's a wrap.
