This week wasn’t as productive as the week before, due to Things.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, other than two of the Things (neither of which produced any balancing good result), Things got done that needed doing.\u00a0 (Not all, by any means.)<\/p>\n
10,020 words for the five-day work week despite one day of <300 words.\u00a0\u00a0 22,054 for the month of August up to this moment.\u00a0\u00a0 Need another 20,000 by the end of the month (before Dragon*Con, that is.)<\/p>\n
What parts of the storyline have advanced most this week?\u00a0\u00a0 Two POVs in particular:\u00a0 Arvid’s and Arcolin’s.\u00a0\u00a0 Arcolin is faced with a big new problem in which loyalties will be stretched.\u00a0\u00a0 Arvid…there are too many people who want Arvid dead, not all for the same reasons.\u00a0 Other growth points have moved as well, but not as far.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The story is advancing on a broad front, like the tide–slower here, faster there, depending on the conformation of the shore.<\/p>\n
At times it feels like someone took the lid off\u00a0 huge bucket of red herrings and tossed them out…they’re wiggling in all directions, and they’re not ALL red herrings.\u00a0 Which ones must be written???\u00a0 The trouble with really easy-to-write characters, like Arvid, is that they aren’t main-line most of the time…so although they’re fun to write, they’re not “on task” in terms of advancing the long-arc plot except here and there, which is, really, the only times these secondary and tertiary characters should have lines at center stage (have\u00a0 POV.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Does it matter<\/em> that someone Arvid talked to the day before yesterday was found dead under Drunkard’s Bridge in Valdaire?\u00a0\u00a0 It can matter to\u00a0 Arvid without mattering to the long plot arc (just as, if someone dropped dead on your doorstep, it would matter a lot to you, but quite likely not much if anything in a later history the first two decades of the 21st century.)\u00a0 Out of all the incidents in Arvid’s life-in-book-time, I need to spend my writing time on those of plot significance.<\/p>\n And yes, I know some of you would happily read about Arvid doing grocery shopping or blacking his boots or correcting the manners of a snotty-nosed apprentice thief, but…no.\u00a0 Not when I have a book to finish in time to get it out a year from the previous one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He must speak his lines featly and then exit L or R and let the play go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This week wasn’t as productive as the week before, due to Things.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, other than two of the Things (neither of which produced any balancing good result), Things got done that needed doing.\u00a0 (Not all, by any means.) 10,020 words for the five-day work week despite one day of <300 words.\u00a0\u00a0 22,054 for the month […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,5],"tags":[22,106,20,107],"class_list":["post-855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-craft","category-the-writing-life","tag-characters","tag-contents","tag-progress-report","tag-the-writing-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=855"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":857,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/855\/revisions\/857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}