Novel Watch #12: +3 pages [35.5 total]
I added 3 whole pages today, which is good — it means I’m catching up!
Today was fun. I think my characters are starting to coalesce a little, which is great. I’m getting a better handle on Adrianna, which is extremely important. I know I’m going to have to go back and strengthen her early on, but that’s okay. This is rough draft land — right now I’m just moving ahead and discovering new things.
My word count stands at just over 23,000 words — officially in novella territory, and over halfway to the usual designation of novel (40,000 words). It’s #9 on my personal list of longest stories/series written, by word count. Just recently passed ThatPlace: The Joining in length, which is amazing considering how much happened in that story! (I’ll post the full Top 10 list as soon as I get a chance to format it)
Today Adrianna got her first “lesson,” if you can call it that, and then she got to meet Bandolor’s thesaurus:
The creature was watching her eyes move back and forth between Bandolor and her palm. Adrianna leaned in to get a closer look at it, and it raised up a long-fingered paw towards the side of her face. Such a strange animal, and almost creepy in its chimerical composition, but it had the most innocent expression on its face. In the end it wasn’t Bandolor’s command that led her to raise it to her cheek, but simply the fact that it was, despite its mismatched limbs , quite cute. It climbed up on the side of her face and held itself there with its sticky feet. One set of long fingers curled around her ear, the other rested softly against her temple. The cool temperature and sticky appendages of the creature sent itchy tingles across her face.
August 24th, 2007 at 8:09 am
A lot of “it”s. As it is, I wonder why a palm has a long-fingered paw.
But seriously, looking cool. I hope you’ll put me on your proofreading committee.
August 24th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Jacob:
Keep in mind that at the moment, this project is in the “extremely rough draft” stage. Right now I’m just trying to nail down characters and scenes — the story will probably go through a whole second draft/revision before anyone sees it. And then, sure, you’ll be welcome to proofread and comment to your heart’s content.
Right now I just can’t worry about everything being poetic. I play around with a language a little and try to make it nice to a degree, but I’m planning on going back and tightening up pretty much everything . . . and getting rid of things like to many “it”s.
August 24th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Fish,
I know. I was just being mildly clever. Carry on.