Happy Valentine’s Day everyone! I hope you have a wonderfully romantic day. I know my day has been wonderful so far, with my husband giving my roses, chocolates and champagne–everything cliche but sweet all the same.
I’ve had a long week with Arcadian, battling through a hard-to-write patch because I’ve reached the mid-way mark and I always lose my flow around this part a little. I have next week off work so I can hopefully get more written for the story, but normally I end up filling my time with other stuff and not writing when I’m on holiday.
Every time I complete a few chapters, I go back to my outline and see how many more I think there are to come. At this moment, I think I have another 52000 words to write, but it might be less (or more!). That would make the story around 135000 words, which is a relief. Now I just have to wait and see what really happens.
I added a new character in yesterday. It was a necessary addition and might make the story more interesting as it’s on the antagonist’s side. He could use a little company right now.
I’m trying to think about what I can post to give everyone a hint at the story, but I don’t want to give too much away. All I can say is that it involves numerous people with different powers–including the ability to manipulate electricity, a necromancer, and a psychic–and two immortals, one born of a Greek goddess, along with vampires and werewolves. It’s complicated, fast paced, and very romantic.
I had to write a fight scene yesterday morning which went better than expected. I had put it off on the way home the night before, skirting around the issue and playing games on my laptop instead of writing, but finally started it and it turned out good. Not too slow. The trouble with fight scenes is that writers have a tendency to drag them out and bog them down with detail. It just slows the story. Must keep the pace!
Here’s my tally so far:
82,679 / 125,000
[66.1%]
Not too shoddy. I’m glad that I’m past the halfway point now and I have some great scenes coming up so plenty of motivation to keep writing!
Will keep you all posted.
F
