Shake it shake it Salome! (Nanowrimo day 3) Friday, November 03, 2006 (Sorry, Salome by U2 is on, which always makes me want to dance around. So, that's where the title of this post comes from.) Today was good to me. The words came quite a bit easier, and I wrote during my lunch. I did want to get done with this part today, I wanted to move on to Monaco and start the main body of the story, but the Lady herself put that off. Only for a page, I think, but still. She’s also decided to help me lay the tie in to Blue Moon…what she says to Cardea during their conversation during the tug boat roof scene could have been part of my jacket blurb…and maybe it will be, it certainly isn’t a bad summation. I feel like I’m finding everyone’s voices, which is good, and dialogue is coming fairly easily. One of my friends, Sazzle, once commented that I used “he this” and “he that” too many times in a story I wrote, so I’ve been conscious of that in my writing. Also, it could be because of a conversation with another one of my friends, Miss Alto, a few days back, but I’ve been trying to use even fewer dialogue tags than usual…we were both talking about the best way to do it, and I said I preferred not to use them if I could avoid it, so I thought, well, since I made such a big point of it, I better make sure I do it. Or not do it. *grins* I am also pleased that I am remembering things from this world as I go, and am weaving them in. I don’t even know it at the times, sometimes. For example, I remembered, after I wrote the dehydrates scene, that Monaco in my long gone version went to a store for some, that it was the only kind of food she could buy. When you have little revelations like that, it makes it feel like things are natural to the story, like you’re following the right path. As for the rest of my life, everything is pretty good. I’m not sure how much writing I’ll get to over the weekend, but I will tell you I am looking forward to sleeping in. I might not write Sunday, which will loose me my tiny lead, but it will be nice to have a day of rest, especially since I have a craving to play some Final Fantasy and read. I took a peek at the forums over at Nanowrimo, and saw that some people have word counts of 20, even 30, thousand. In three days. I’m trying to decide what I think of that. That’s like, woah. How can anyone get that much done in just three days? I guess they probably stay home…they have to have been home most of the day, don’t you think? Though, if no sleep was involved, 20,000 words divided by 72 hours is about 278 words an hour, so maybe I’m just jealous. (BTW: If you are one of these miracles who’ve achieved these word counts so quickly, please don’t be insulted. I’m just boggling.) Permalink Cindy scribed this at 7:24 PM 0 comments

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