Day 17 of Writing FayTown Calling
I did better today, though not near what I wanted to accomplish for this weekend. About 500 words with most of my work as story boarding of one form or another. I was really uncertain about where the story was going so I spent a little while going over that in my head while my son was napping. There was one major issue staring me in my face that, once I figured it out, I couldn’t believe how simple it was to resolve and the rest fell into place as well. I have also started storyboarding for the third Virgil novel, working title DPAV. This shouldn’t get in the way of FayTown Calling, it just gives me something fresh to work on. I found with Sorcerer Rising that as things became more and more concrete and I started putting chapters and concepts about the story to bed, it still took…
Days 15, 16 Writing FayTown Calling
Absolutely disgusted with this as it’s pretty much the only thing I’ve written in two days. Worse, both are completely on me. Friday was work, then home, then to bed early. I looked over at the computer for a brief moment and just couldn’t summon up the energy to do anything. Today, both my son and I slept in while my wife was at school. Saturday is her big day for clinicals so me and the Spawn get to spend the day together. We got up, played until we were hungry, then went and got Chick-fil-a. Played some more until my wife got home (early this Saturday) and then he was down for a nap (which, thanks to the new plane game where I spin him through the air until he “crashes”, he was out instantly). Then I mowed. If you live in the South, you know why I’m exhausted….
Day 12 and 13 Writing FayTown Calling
Yeah, it didn’t take long for me to miss a day. To recap, Monday was my eleventh day of keeping a log on FayTown Calling. Tuesday would have been my twelfth except I never got around to writing or even making a record of not writing. It was a busy day, work, child, wife, sleepy. Twelve was a bust but I got up early today (Tuesday) and wrote before work, knocking out the second half of the section I worked on Monday. I’m writing this post before going to bed because it was another long day and I’m exhausted. I’ll be getting up early tomorrow to write though with a second session at night. My wife will be working on a paper and the spawn will be with his grandparents, so a bit extra time. Will update tomorrow. UPDATE: Okay, changed my mind and ended up starting the next section….
Day 11 of Writing FayTown Calling
Yep, keeping with the same number. (In case there’s any doubt, this is day 11 of the record, not day 11 since start. I’ve been writing this for like a year and a half.) Got home at about 8:30, gave my son his bath, spent a little time with him, and read him a color of his own. Then it was off to beddy-bye (we’re normally much better about that but I had class so this was a late night). I worked on half a section, knocking out a conversation between Virgil and the villain, and started on the action scene that makes up the rest of the section. It’s moving along. This was a scene from the very first draft that I had a lot of fun with so to be able to polish it up and flesh it out with more detail has been a good time. No…
Day 10 of 10 Writing FayTown Calling
My last day. Tomorrow I return to work, return to an avalanche of emails and things to take care of. This has been a good lesson, helping me to get back in the habit of writing, and more importantly, moving me leaps and bounds toward having FayTown Calling completed. I hate to end it like this, but I didn’t write much today. Getting two hours of sleep will do that. I wrote a scene and cleaned up a few other things, but that was pretty much it. That’s seven-thousand words for the weekend and I’m happy with everything I have. Going forward, I plan on keeping this up. I hope it’s enjoyable for others but really that’s to keep me accountable. I’m not committing to anything, because I can see this steadily falling to the wayside, but it’s something I plan on keeping up. I will have an update on…