I did 1600 words today which is a good start to the week. Unfortunately I don't feel great about those 1600 words. Today I ran into... kind of a block My characters are traveling to a point of interest and I have a few events planned for them. But... I need to establish some new characters and I'm... quite frankly I'm very terrible at dialogue and planning some sort of... bonding time I guess. It's just bad. So what I did is I skipped all the stuff that would introduce the characters and make them valuable (Some characters die fairly early in my story, so I need to make the reader care about them first, that is the issue I'm having problems with). I rushed through a lot of the action events to try and get something down because if I waited until I worded everything just right I'd be sitting there staring at my screen forever.
So now I have a framework down that I'll have to fix up a lot when I go through the rewrite. Frankly I need to learn how to do a few things for the rewrite (as I am rapidly discovering). My settings leave so much to be desired atm. I have certain scenes and moments that just flow so well and read well too. But everything in between just... hurts to read. I'm glad I made 1600 words today and I hope to do 2000 tomorrow but... the week has just begun. Sorry for excessive ellipse usage, I just do that in stream of consciousness mode.
Oh yah no new excerpt because my stuff today wasn't very good. Maybe I'll polish it a little tomorrow, or maybe I won't. We'll see.
Word Count: 7,698
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