It's time to pull a Peter Jackson and find a way to make the epilogue last eight times longer than necessary because I'm nearing the last couple of chapters of my main story and I haven't even cracked 30,000 words. |
It's all about word count. I have some nano books that I never touched again after the month was over. |
After I went from nothing to a 50,000+ word manuscript last November, I was so excited to finally dive into the editing process and turn that mess of a draft into a refined story. I haven't laid a finger on it since November 30, 2023. |
I'm really happy for my protagonist. He's gone through a lot, but he never gave up. He kept his head high and kept grinding until - Oh, wait, it's still only the second act. The protagonist tries to save the day but he still sucks so everything goes wrong and everyone he cares about pays the price for his incompetence. |
I love when the writing process comes to a screeching halt so I can open up a browser window to see if I can trace the etymology of random words to at least as far back as the Middle Ages. I don't care if the word originated from Latin, Old French, Old English, or whatever. If someone uttered the word anywhere near Europe before 1500, then it was in use in Medieval Scandinavia because shut up it was. |
The adventures of having to invent a new character on the fly to be the villain because I decided the original villain would make a better redeemed secondary protagonist. Tune in next week for a new episode of "Let's Rewrite the First Act Because a Handful of What Happened Is Now Inconsistent with My New Redemption Arc." |