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Oh yeah update.

I hit 200,000 words yesterday. Nearly 400 MS word pages. By summer's end people. It's happening. I'm actually getting excited. I feel like a giddy pre-teen entering Jr. High. I feel all accomplished and I'm going to be graduating my first school, but then I'm being thrown into the big scary school with children that will DESTROY MY SOUL if I'm not one of the popular kids. Don't pick on me guys. I can't handle the hormones and angst. Anyway, I am starting to think of book two. This is crazy. I can't even. Even if it goes no where and it sucks. I can't even.

Also, the food trucks are coming. I thought I was going to be skipping lunch today cause I had no food to bring that didn't require cooking on a stove and I forgot to make food last night, and THE FOOD TRUCKS ARE COMING. This day is fantastic.

Dedrad's Interlude

Knock another interlude off the list. Dedrad's bit has been re-written in full. It's a lot better than it used to be. He actually has some fricking character in it now. Before was just so...bland. Some of the parts in this section might actually be the best of my writing in this project so far. At least I think so. It's good because this section is more than a little important for developing some character relationships later on...and attitudes in this world. Helped to really expand what's going on in the world of WMRR. Anyway, I'm happy.

Word count is still around the 180,000 mark as I deleted an entire section, which was basically  just shlock I wrote so I could wrap my head around an event.

I really want to take a week off and go to Lake Winnipeg and just...write. That and eat cookies and lie on a beach. Those things are good too.

I Write Weird Things

Ash gets assaulted by a suit of advanced armour.

...and thus began the angry adventures of Hash O'Tool.

Lists and Categories

I used to get so stressed out whenever I loaned people my pencil crayons back in elementary and Jr. High school. I had every pencil lined up in a perfect spectrum of colour, taking one to three out of the case at a time whenever I needed them so I could easily place them back where they belonged. This was not the case when other students borrowed them. They'd use multiple pencils at a time and when I received them back I had to take several minutes to place them all back in the same spots before I could relax. 

This is a problem for me. I am still very much like this where I develop patterns and lists and categories for items or information and I feel the need to organize it in a specific way over and over again. This is a huge problem I encounter in writing as I fall into these habits and means of organizing thoughts, which can make my writing stale and repetitive. I'm discovering very quickly that I need to make myself uncomfortable with my own writing and smash those walls of the boxes I create in my head (god damned catwalks man...they turn up like five times in the narrative).

I have broken out of a linear strategy of writing. I am writing segments all over the place now and it's stressing me out some because while I can write the pieces in my mind wherever I want at any time, I am terrified that there will be too many inconsistencies or aspects I forgot about. I suppose this is what editing is for? 

Production is accelerating. I am 100% sure I will be finished my first draft this year. Maybe even by the end of summer. I am excited, but I have so much to do.

Very close to 170,000 words. I stressed myself out yesterday writing one part. I may be getting a bit too invested in what's going on. 

Fill in the Gaps

Ever take one of those fill in the gap tests in school? Yeah, now think of that, but only the gaps are multiple paragraphs long and there are about 15 sections that need to be filled in. That said, I'm writing this a lot faster with this method. I can't decide if that's good or not.

If I ever send this to anyone in this state I'll have to tell them to mind the gap.

Face ---> Desk

Over and over again. I often wonder what people would think if they looked up all my search terms including, but not limited to:

Knives, blades, swords
Staff fighting
Surviving falls from various heights
Blood loss
Puncture wounds with and without objects embedded in the wound
Rail guns
EMPs
Nanotechnology
Corrosive materials
Symptoms of shock
How to avoid going into shock
Various medical conditions

Crossed my mind when I found a post on blood loss in Tumblr. Was really quite useful, though I may need to verify the stats. Yeah...Tumblr makes me want to repeatedly smash my face into the desk, while making me laugh every two smashes. It is both a hilarious and terrible place, where I either learn something new, giggle a little or hate my existence.

Which is why I post most updates here. 160,000 words by the way.

Fragmented

Current number of chapters being worked on: 5
Number of chapters finished since the new year: 0

Shit.

Chapter 12 is still unfinished.

Balls.