at least, that’s what it feels like. Still, trudging progress is better than no progress, so I’m not really complaining. The nine pages I wrote on Monday I rewrote yesterday, mainly because I had a plot deviation in there that really couldn’t stay. It just made things too difficult for the end of the fight scene. So, I rewrote and added three pages, and that was about it for my progress yesterday. I’m not sure that today is going to be any easier, though, because right now Riley is chained up on a table about to become a sorcerer’s next victim, so there’s not a whole lot she can do right now. She needs to be rescued, and I need to extend this scene for several pages and make her desperate before the rescue comes. I love writing fight scenes, but these kinds of scenes? Not so much. I’m always worried that its going to be as boring as hell, and that readers will just start skipping the pages to get to the more interesting stuff.
I’m becoming more and more sure this isn’t going to hit 400 pages. I only have the final half of the fight scene, a sex scene and a ‘fallout’ scene to write before the book is finished, so if I get to 370–380 pages, I’ll be lucky. Still, I may get to add a few pages in the rewrite, because I’ve got a heap of notes sitting in front of me about stuff that needs to be corrected or added to the earlier pages. It may help, it may not. As ever, we’ll see.
Riley 7 progress meter:
March 11th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
Everything will be alright and will work out fine and , no I won’t skip pages because I don’t want to miss out on anything important!
March 12th, 2008 at 7:30 am
You can do it I know you can and the book won\’t be any bit dull it will be great. Never would I think of skipping a page afraid I\’ll miss something anyt detail that makes the book fantastic. So don\’t worry it\’ll be one amazing book
March 12th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
I think you can do it. If push comes to shove, you can fill the sex scene with lots of foreplay or many interuptions
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March 14th, 2008 at 2:49 am
Go you! Who cares if it’s not quite 400? I know it will be action packed and full of riley goodness.
It’s gotta be downhill from here, run that ass all the way to the finish, Arthur, I’m cheering for you.
March 14th, 2008 at 5:30 am
lol. The ass is all out of running right now. I have a crawl in me, though