Novel Update
I am now somewhere around the 20K word mark, now, but not very deep into the story yet, so I am not having any trouble generating words at the moment. Last week I wrote about half of those words, so it was a very productive week—and the work was quite manageable. Aiming for 2K words per day is a short order, really, but for the moment it’s a good goal because it’s so doable. I’ll likely have to make up some of today’s words, for example, because I was drinking through the Oscars last night and am tired and slow today.
2K per day (per week day, that is) is interesting because it gives me extra time. It’s regular, not like the way I’ve often written in the past, in unlimited binges. If this becomes my regular rhythm I’ll be able to do the reading and additional writing I’d like to do aside my larger projects.
After writing my opening pages, I took more time to build out the story on index cards, organized them and input them into Scrivener as cards. Now, I can just take one card at a time and work through the first act that way. As expected, as I go the story continues to evolve in little and big ways. More and more I think Fig is going to get possessed by some kind of spirit/demon. This seems like it raises the stakes a lot for everyone. I don’t know quite how it will happen, but I have some cards to write before I get to that point.