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Finished it up this evening. The writing is horrendous. I started in 1st person pov, then went to 3rd and sometimes flipped back to 1st when it felt right. I still don’t know what it should be, I’ll figure that out next month when I edit it.

This is the first new story I’ve completed in over a year. I’m quite pleased with the story, and can’t wait to edit it. Well truthfully, I can wait, but I’m eager to see what I can do with it when the time is right.

Now it’s time for bed.

Amazing progress on Violas today. Gutted most of the old version, and wrote the new story, and have the climax and finale to write now. I have to figure out the ending though, something is hanging…

This is a much better story than I thought it would be. 🙂

I also had a few ideas on how to slip some extra details into Fading Light that should liven up the surrounding world.

Violas has changed drastically thanks to a brainstorming session with my brother. He asked a question I wasn’t prepared to answer, and that threw quite a wrench into the works. The end result is a better story (outlined, everything else has been gutted), but the ending still needs some attention. Looks like I’ll be skipping the workout tomorrow to get this done.

I worked on Violas over lunch today, I’m about a third of the way through the story and the POV (1st) isn’t working anymore. I’ll move the story into 3rd and edit out the 1st perspective on the edit.

I’m almost done with the 3rd of 7 scenes, so definite progress. There is a lot of (fill-in-the-blank) type notes though, but that may clear up with the pov change.

I’m so excited to be moving again on this story. I’m just not thrilled with the bumpy-stumpy 1st draft sentences… can’t wait for the edit. I don’t think anyone is looking at this first draft.

As soon as this is done, I’ll get back to Carter’s crit. I’ve learned to balance multipe projects, but I can’t seem to juggle 1st drafts with other tasks.

I think I’m on the right track now with Violas. I need to refocus on the important details and I am using the Think Sideways techniques to do this. After the past few days of sick baby combined with insane working hours, my brain and body are tired, and after today’s insane workpace, my hands are very tired. My fingers want to find a cool vat of silky mud and jsut soak. So, I will cut the Viola scenes tomorrow, am salvaging two, but redirecting them, and then I have to write the rest.

Slow, yes, but progress is good.

I’m not a scientist, and I don’t bluff well, but somehow I write science fiction. I write the characters and the problem first, and place them in the world where they’ll be most interesting. Currently, it’s science fiction. Somehow I have to evolve the science of my story into a merge of actual science and dawn-science. It’s not easy but I do enjoy a challenge every now and again.