alchemical fantasy
An update to say not much has been happening on the writing front. Instead, I’ve been holding the baby, gearing up for Christmas, beating my husband at Settlers of Cataan (okay, he won once, when I wasn’t paying attention), and oh yeah, holding the baby.
I still need to write story #4, but that will have to wait after Christmas. I’ve got robot dragons on my mind, but I don’t know what (if anything) will happen with them.
How are you all?
Exposure, 1637 words, written in one sitting. Brutal. Emotionally draining. But I couldn’t let it linger too long. The mental prep for it was helpful in achieving some emotional distance so I could actually write it, but was still full of a kind of horror.
This is not a story I want to spend too much time in.
I don’t know if I can make myself ever look at it again.
But once I had the idea, horrific as it was to me, it needed to be written.
On to the next story.
Broken, another Elinor story, is complete at 6242 words.
Two down, two more to go. One will be short and brutal (to write), the other will be just weird.
Then, then, then it’ll be time to start another novel!
Got 2253 words on the new Elinor story (working title Broken), most of them today. *pant pant*
I decided to forego waiting around for motivation to come calling and Just Do It. It’s been a long time since I got almost 2K words in a day and it feels good.
Amusing typos: Therefore, it didn’t take long for the burning smile to rouse me from my half-asleep state. (Ah, yes, those burning smiles do it every time!).
Words I love:
Then he left, leaving me in the dim interior of the shed, alone save for a commonplace thuggish guard-for-hire outside the door.
In case I had friends who would come for me.
Ha.
So, the goal stil is to finish four stories this month. Broken is story number 2. The Xenobiologist is story number 1 because it was finished in December (even though I started it in November). The Husband thinks that’s cheating, but if I don’t count Xenobiologist than I have no hope of writing four shorts this month. And, yanno, four stories in four weeks is a lot snappier and catchier (4 in 4!) than three stories in a month.
Xenobiologist stands as story number 1.