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New Words: 361
Chapter Twenty-One total words: 2999
Total words for the new draft: 93,291
What I hate: This screwed up sleep schedule I'm on this week.
The Good: My bedroom is cold again! Oh wait this is supposed to be writing good. I finally have gotten Zy and Mealte in the same location with the member of Asseff's local police force.
The Bad: Next chapter because I forgot what the location looked like in the scene I wrote ahead, so I'll have to rewrite it.
Fave line: "You have to speak with the police. And if you get anywhere with them, tell them the other residents would appreciate them taking the remains off-premises."
What I'm looking forward to: Getting a new battery backup so I can work at the home computer again.
What I'm not looking forward to: Paying bills.

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New Words: 413
Chapter Twenty-One total words: 2638
Total words for the new draft: 92,930
What I hate: Slow paying job days make me anxious that I'm going to be scolded for writing.
The Good: Holy crap, the inner editor shut up about filler and let me work today.
The Bad: I thought I had the home computer up and running, but found it shut off this morning. Yeah, I'm thinking the surge protector I found to make do might be out of date.
Fave line: "News commentators treating a racketeer's death like it is a political problem instead of a crime. LLEOs not sharing everything is common enough, but the reporters aren't pressing for how Tonork died."
What I'm looking forward to: Getting a new battery backup so I can work at the home computer again.
What I'm not looking forward to: Switching the AC units around.

And holy crap, I've reached 200 posts on this novel and still haven't finished it yet! Here's hoping it doesn't take another hundred.

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New Words: 109
Chapter Twenty-One total words: 2225
Total words for the new draft: 92,517
What I hate: Missing three days of writing.
The Good: I got fifteen minutes of writing done while at the paying job.
The Bad: After a three day break, it's hard to get back to where I was and the progress I was making.
Fave line: Xeryl's smile twisted to a grimace. "And hurry back."
What I'm looking forward to: Getting a new battery backup so I can work at the home computer again.
What I'm not looking forward to: Switching the AC units around.

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New Words: 295
Chapter Twenty-One total words: 2116
Total words for the new draft: 92,408
What I hate: Being this sleepy in the middle of the day.
The Good: I already tacked in one of the already written scenes into Chapter Twenty-One, so now I just have get my characters to that point.
The Bad: I'm really tired of my head screaming "FILLER!" at me when I start to write.
Fave line: "My place is with you. If the tkultaraas is waiting for you on Per 3, you will need aid in arms."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!tonight!
What I'm not looking forward to: How my momentum will probably crash and burn over this weekend.

2012 Project Post 07

This post has been a long time coming. Back on May 16th, I started transferring notes I have in separate files into the StrixWiki. I'm still working on the character matrix, but I hope to have it done by the end of the week.

I built Haganville and its surrounding areas in a trial version of Map Maker Pro. The program is easy to use, though I never fully grasped how to save projects and layers and lost everything I had done at one point. My other issue was with scale and how everything had to connect with its beginning gave me trouble when it came to roads. Roads in my experience are straight lines that eventually dead end.

So now that I have a glimpse of where areas are in relation to each other, I'll redraw the map in PaintShop where I'll have a better grasp of scale. I hope. I put "to scale" the Kiamoko layout's file name, but I can't remember the scale I used. :p

Usually, I don't worry so much about background before I write. But part of what has given me so much waffling with Stellar Gift of Death is undecided background details. So with Forget, I'm deciding on them before I start on the new narrative. And that can't hurt the non-existent description from the first version.

Next post I should have images of Haganville and the major locations to reveal. And have most of my wiki posts created.

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New Words: 290
Chapter Twenty total words: 5739
Total words for the new draft: 92,113
What I hate: Going to bed on time and I still don't want to get up.
The Good: Transitioned into the already-written restaurant/date scene and closed out Chapter 20.
The Bad: I don't know how I want to start Chapter 21 yet.
Fave line: “That integrity of yours, how it gives you hell.”
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!this coming weekend!
What I'm not looking forward to: How my momentum will probably crash and burn over this weekend.

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New Words: 295
Chapter Twenty total words: 3664
Total words for the new draft: 91,823
What I hate: Not enough sleep.
The Good: Finished the scene.
The Bad: I'm forging on despite feeling like it's weak and needs expanding or cutting. The Perfect Girl is having understanding issues on the concept of second draft.
Fave line: "I think you're right, I do need a new dress. What do you have that's suitable for Rintar's?"
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!this coming weekend!
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words:278
Chapter Twenty total words: 3369
Total words for the new draft: 91,528
What I hate: Wondering why I haven't gotten a phone call from the credit union I've been expecting.
The Good: I've chipped into the confrontation scene.
The Bad: I spent way too much of today waffling on this scene. If I have to come back and add to it, I have to come back and add to it.
Fave line: "Your hair may look like a paint supply explosion, but nothing else has changed."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!this coming weekend!
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

2012 Fiction Word Counts Weeks 18 - 20

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New Words: 273
Chapter Twenty total words: 3091
Total words for the new draft: 91,250
What I hate: Waking up in the middle of the night.
The Good: I've made it to the clothes shopping scene.
The Bad: That feels like the worst transition I have committed in this novel.
Fave line: "All you wear are those jumpsuits. It's probably too hard to match that hair, but it doesn't mean you shouldn't try."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!this coming weekend!
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 246
Chapter Twenty total words: 2818
Total words for the new draft: 90,977
What I hate: I put writing on the list and do I get back to it, nooooo!
The Good: I got some writing done before getting distracted by the project for Forget the Sun that can only be done on the home computer.
The Bad: I feel like this scene is nothing but filler. I'm continuing with it, because lately that has been the Perfect Girl talking and she's terrified of finishing this novel.
Fave line: "I hope it includes interior decorating. Public transportation has more personality."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!this coming weekend!
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 472
Chapter Twenty total words: 2572
Total words for the new draft: 90,731
What I hate: Feeling unprepared for a meeting I have later today.
The Good: I made up the thirty minutes I missed Monday today. I also have a better grasp on how the confrontations ahead are going to go.
The Bad: I shouldn't make up any time because there's not supposed to be time to make up.
Fave line: "No, because it probably would mean a disaster befell mine."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! eventually. Now add Dark Shadows; what? I like Tim Burton creepy.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 290
Chapter Twenty total words: 2100
Total words for the new draft: 90,259
What I hate: Being unprepared. Here I have some extra time, and I don't think I brought all my Forget the Sun notes.
The Good: Chapter Twenty is slowly coming together. It's probably going to end up a breather chapter before the Lull before the Second Plot Point.
The Bad: My sleep schedule is out of whack on the waking up side, and I don't know what's causing it.
Fave line: "He's killed eighteen sentients already. None of us can afford to be cocky."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! eventually. Now add Dark Shadows; what? I like Tim Burton creepy.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 280
Chapter Twenty total words: 1810
Total words for the new draft: 89,969
What I hate: Being so sleepy with no good reason.
The Good: Managed to get more words done despite the weird sleepy spell I am under.
The Bad: My pattern last week was work a day, take a day off. I already took Monday off this week. :p
Fave line: "We're not immune to [Murderer's real name]'s pushing ability, and somebody needs to stop him if we don't."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! eventually. Now add Dark Shadows; what? I like Tim Burton creepy.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 340
Chapter Twenty total words: 1530
Total words for the new draft: 89,689
What I hate: Fuzzy television pictures and I don't know why it's fuzzy.
The Good: I got writing work done on a Sunday . Wow.
The Bad: I need to write on this story every day of the week and that hasn't happened in a while.
Fave line: "I just want to make sure that you're not so nice that we actually lose our prisoner."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! eventually. Now add Dark Shadows; what? I like Tim Burton creepy.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 332
Chapter Nineteen total words: 3601
Chapter Twenty total words: 1190
Total words for the new draft: 89,349
What I hate: I have no idea why I'm so sleepy.
The Good: Now I'm sure I've finished Chapter 19. The scene is much stronger now with the brain wave and transitions into the last scene of the chapter better than it had before.
The Bad: I feel like I'm so far behind because I worked so little this week.
Fave line: Sithna frowned so hard at that bottle Zy lifted it up so she could see it better.
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! eventually. Now add Dark Shadows; what? I like Tim Burton creepy.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 290
Chapter Nineteen total words: 3606
Chapter Twenty total words: 858
Total words for the new draft: 89,017
What I hate: Telling myself I will finish this up at home and then not.
The Good: I thought I was through with Chapter 19. Then came a brain wave and I figured out I wasn't.
The Bad: It took two days for my writing grove to resettle after the weekend I had. This does not bode well for me continuing to help out and get my own goals accomplished. :(
Fave line: "All my paintings are abstracts. My still-life's look like abstracts, so why bother setting the stuff out in the first place."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE! eventually.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

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New Words: 232
Chapter Twenty total words: 858
Total words for the new draft: 88,727
What I hate: The mess that is on my paying job desk right now. Where are the checks to process?
The Good: Chapter Twenty is off to a great start.
The Bad: In all likelihood, I won't work on it again until Monday.
Fave line: "They or their beneficiaries will be well compensated for that potentiality."
What I'm looking forward to: AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over. I don't know if the restaurant scene will go in Chapter Twenty or be pushed back.

Caught my interest

Some Tales of Mhorag -- Lake monster fiction isn't on my list of subjects, but I really like the cadence of the first two tales and a bit of the third.

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New Words: 265
Chapter Nineteen total words: 3316
Total words for the new draft: 88,495
What I hate: I don't mind the rain, but the thunder and lightening can stop right now.
The Good: I finished Chapter Nineteen!
The Bad: It took me three days to get the KanbanFlow boards how I wanted them, which killed my writing time. I hope I can make up what I lost in the rest of this week.
Fave line: "Having been there, I do believe you. But you didn't try to get away from [Murderer's real name] once he took you away from it."
What I'm looking forward to: Starting Chapter Twenty.
What I'm not looking forward to: All the stuff that happens in Chapter Twenty that I skipped over.