Crap

Forgot Dedrad's last name. I wrote it down somewhere and I swear it was an awesome name. I think it got purged when I lost Gary. I really need to see if I can access that hard drive...

I was going to say I was nearing 300 pages...but like, 50 of them are notes, trash, placeholders or items that need to be rewritten. So scratch that.

November 6, 2005

I didn't know it had been that long, but I have had this idea in my head for approximately 8 years, 4 months and 8 days. Or, if you want to be more specific...3048 days. Considering that I have been alive for over 9000 days as of January (knowledge courtesy of Creepy Zoo Guy), I have been thinking about, or working on this project through three different versions, for a just over a third of my life.

I really need to finish this damn thing. I'm glad I have a plan for more work because it'll be WEIRD when I'm done this project. It's this year. I know that for certain now. I WILL finish this, even if it goes nowhere from there. I am determined.

Finally!

I haven't been this pleased about writing in quite some time. I finally figured out how to handle Dedrad's Interlude, and it makes me super excited about the project again. I wrote an original version a couple years ago, and it really sucks. I'm going to keep it on file because it has some useful elements in it, but ultimately it's being scrapped in favour of this new look into his character. And again, I've added a couple new characters that theoretically I won't mention again until book 2. We'll have to see. I have a potential place for them in an upcoming chapter, but I don't know if it will work or not. I'm just happy to actually be going somewhere with it as it's been a major block since I wrote the damn section.

Now, chapter 12 just needs to magically come to me and all will be well. My writing is so segmented right now, even more than usual. Working on 3 or 4 chapters at once in bits will either be good for me (as that's normally how my thought process works) or extremely bad as events and ideas will get jumbled up along the way. We will see. Thankfully, this is what editing, and re-editing, then more editing is for. Then I send it to other people who also edit it, and then I edit again. And so on. I'm just happy about this one victory.