Novel Watch 7: +5 pages [24 total]
Wow. In spite of being busy, I managed to add 5(!) whole single-spaced pages to my manuscript over the weekend. Most of that (say, 80%) came from today, when we were all less busy and my sister was out on her own for a while. Also, I managed to get some writing done before my usual writing hours of 11 PM to 3 AM, since the house was relatively quiet all day.
That means I’m still on track for my goals of averaging 2 pages a day for August and finishing Part 1 by the end of the month. Still, I’ve got some busy times coming up, so I should crank some pages out now!
The deal has been made, and I can move on to making this thing meatier. Here’s an excerpt for you.
The first stars were beginning to twinkle in the darkening twilight. She didn’t need to see the rest to know that they were the same stars that she saw every night; these few early adventurers always appeared first, although never so quickly as tonight. The pollution of even a small city seemed to hide the stars longer. She laid back and watched the constellations appear, star by star, until the night sky bled light from a thousand pricks.