verbage: Blood on Her Hands
Mar. 10th, 2018 09:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jazzfishWords: 1600ish
Total words: 6300ish
Neat things: Laine Hollister (of Ivey and Hollister) is a piece of work. The demon has a bit of personality, too. A wave of malice crashed over me, tinged with burnt roses and shattered glass.
This story has been giving me fits for literally years. It looks like the initial idea came to me holy crap six years ago, and I first put actual words to paper a couple years after that. For at least the last three years I've known sort of the general shape of it, or at least where I want it to end up, but I'd not been able to set it up to justify the emotional payoff. I figured out a big part of the puzzle (the What, I guess) right after the VP reunion a year and a half ago, which basically amounted to "let the protagonist off-leash," and then the story sat until, mm, this weekend, I guess. Thursday morning I chipped away at a few scenes and by Thursday afternoon I had cracked the How part of the problem.
I've got maybe a scene and a half left to write. Or three-quarters of a scene and two halves, I guess. I might be able to get some of that done tomorrow morning, and then I could leave Rainforest with a completed draft. That would be something. Even if not, a completed draft is within reach, which is kind of amazing.
Rainforest has been good. More later.
Total words: 6300ish
Neat things: Laine Hollister (of Ivey and Hollister) is a piece of work. The demon has a bit of personality, too. A wave of malice crashed over me, tinged with burnt roses and shattered glass.
This story has been giving me fits for literally years. It looks like the initial idea came to me holy crap six years ago, and I first put actual words to paper a couple years after that. For at least the last three years I've known sort of the general shape of it, or at least where I want it to end up, but I'd not been able to set it up to justify the emotional payoff. I figured out a big part of the puzzle (the What, I guess) right after the VP reunion a year and a half ago, which basically amounted to "let the protagonist off-leash," and then the story sat until, mm, this weekend, I guess. Thursday morning I chipped away at a few scenes and by Thursday afternoon I had cracked the How part of the problem.
I've got maybe a scene and a half left to write. Or three-quarters of a scene and two halves, I guess. I might be able to get some of that done tomorrow morning, and then I could leave Rainforest with a completed draft. That would be something. Even if not, a completed draft is within reach, which is kind of amazing.
Rainforest has been good. More later.