Progress!

20 February 2010 | Filed Under Updates, Worldbuilding 

My novel’s had a busy two weeks! Not only did I find a villain and create an appendix, but the word count jumped up to 11%!

The evil demon guy from Fantasia.

My villain is hardcore. At least, I like to think so. My original villain was just going to be your generic demon king [see above]. I hate “take over the world” schemes but couldn’t think of anything better – until I did! He’s got a whole history with my main character, and pretty much hates her guts for reasons I won’t go into (needless to say, it involves death and destruction of everything he held dear) and has sworn revenge. Not just her death, that would be too simple. He wants to make her suffer just as she made him suffered. Revenge is also an old scheme, but I think it’ll work out well.

I made a non-scale map of the novel’s setting, the City of the Gods. I used Gimp, which couldn’t make circles, so…yeah. I’m still proud of it though. Not quite sure what to do with the orange dots (the “Centers”). Lauren suggested ruins or gardens. I like the ruins idea, but everything in between the dots is forest or field, so gardens didn’t make sense. If you have any ideas, please let me know!

I’ve got a plan for the progress bar, too. I wasn’t quite sure what to put as my word count goal, so I just used NaNoWriMo’s (50,000). But once I finish the first quarter of my novel (which I will know thanks to my Snowflake, which builds novels by quarters), I will recalibrate it. That should be more accurate, hopefully.

Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to try and bump that progress bar up a few more percents!

P.S. If you look at My Del.icio.us, you’ll get an idea of what I’m going to talk about next week!

Comments

2 Responses to “Progress!”

  1. Sara S on February 20th, 2010 3:03 am

    You have a villain now AND a map?? Amazing! What is del.icio.us anyway? I’ve been hearing a lot about it recently, but I still haven’t figured it out… (even after visiting the site, haha).

    I like the ruins idea for the orange dots… There’s a lot of history you can put there, haha. Another option is the “house in the middle of nowhere” with the person one of your characters needs to meet before going on their way.

  2. Jenn on February 20th, 2010 8:54 am

    Heck yes!

    del.icio.us is like, a site to hold all your bookmarks that you can share with people. In the sidebar, if you click on the heading, “My Del.icio.us,” it should take you straight there. The links beneath it are my latest bookmarks. I still use Safari’s bookmark system, but that’s for like, job hunting and stuff.

    That’s true, it could be a chance to show some previous life stuff (yeah reincarnation!) or the relationships between the gods (the god of fire/north is a piece of work, haha). Yay bouncing ideas around!

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