Mini Update 6
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Now we’re coming down to it: the home stretch. In these last few chapters, we’ll see if Calder and the others can defeat the big bad Narrator. Good luck, fellas. You sorely need it.
Mini Update 5
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Okay, so I didn’t get much writing done, but I have the rewrite planned almost all the way to the end, which is excellent progress considering last week I had only a vague idea how to end this new version.
Goal: Reach the story’s climax (final Narrator vs. Gang battle) by the end of August.
Mini Update 4
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Progress: over 3/4 revised, according to my projected page count. Might end up going over it though, we’ll see.
Plan: write write write write this weekend. Sleep, then write some more.
Goal: reach 200 pages by the next mini update. Whether or not that’s the end of the novel is another problem entirely.
Mini Update 3
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Trying to get back into the writing groove. It’s been a bit hard since vacation.
BUT I’m 2/3 through my Narrator revision! Huzzah for small favors.
Mini Update 2
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I’ve made a lot of progress lately on The Narrator, over half-way revised! And every week, I’m sending out chapters to my writing group for critiques.
Progress is slow, but good!
Writing Corners
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I’ve written myself into a corner.
Stupid corner.
I’m turning to you, my readers, for help. Here’s the sitch:
As you may know, Prince Calder, the main character of The Narrator, is trying to rescue a princess. The narrator doesn’t want him to. He wants the prince to stay in this town to deal with some ghosts. Refusing, Calder tries to leave town.
Originally, I was going to have people come up to him begging for help, and a torrential storm, and so on. Then I remembered: I’d basically turned the guy into a ghost! So if people saw him, they definitely wouldn’t be begging for help, and a storm couldn’t possibly hurt him.
Hello Corner. How are you?
So readers, what do you think? What obstacles could try to stop a “ghost” from leaving town? No idea is too stupid!
Timing
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Aaaand no more progress these last two weeks. Where has the time gone?
If it counts, I’ve been working out scenes in my head while driving to work and running errands. I just haven’t gotten anything down on “paper.”
Looking back on my goals for May, I find I only completed one:
- Finish my NaNo revision
- Send that sucker out to beta readers
- Send my script out to beta readers
- Get a good chunk (half?) of my next project done
A bit over-ambitious of me, huh? I only managed one thing. Didn’t even start my next project.
Oh well, there’s always next month!
Desk Balancing
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Fortunately for my part-time desk jobs, things have been picking up! I get to fill my wallet, earn experience points, the whole shebang.
Unfortunately for my writing desk, that means less time to work on my novels, which means the progress bars haven’t moved at all this week.
Bummer.
On to May
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I can officially call April a productive writing month. Here’s what I have accomplished:
- Wrote 100 pages of script for a stage play
- Got on the right track for my NaNo revision
- Have actually revised about a quarter of my NaNo novel
- Already dove in to my next project!
In May, I want to at least:
- Finish my NaNo revision
- Send that sucker out to beta readers
- Send my script out to beta readers
- Get a good chunk (half?) of my next project done
Is it a lot? Yes. But I think I can manage because April taught me that I rock!
Screnzy: Complete
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As of 9:10 pm Wednesday night, I have finished Script Frenzy.
Whoa.
I feel proud, obviously. And accomplished. Scripts aren’t my usual thing, but I liked trying it out. And crazily, it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.
Oh sure, it’s a lot to write, and the deadline’s always an impressive motivator, but I felt it went so much faster than 50,000 words for a novel.
I know there are huge problems with my first draft of Too Many Princesses but who cares?! It’s a freaking first draft, and it’s complete!
Here’s an excerpt for you to enjoy. For your convenience, I’ve added the characters’ corresponding fairy tale in brackets. Prince Charming and Miranda [the Little Mermaid] are standing in the hall when:
Charming! Finally, I’ve been looking all over for you!
(ROSE [Beauty and the Beast] enters.)
Aren’t you supposed to be in the guest wing?
Like that’s going to stop us. Your Highness, I was hoping you would have tea with me.
(nervously)
No, I’m fine.
You’re missing out. I brew a mean rosehip.
(CHARMING is about to respond, but RAPUNZEL cuts him off.)
Lay off will you, he said he didn’t want to.
Chill, jailbird. It’s what those of us in the outside world call persuasion.
Now hang on a second -
No, I’m pretty sure it’s called harassment.
(SNOWFLAKE [Snow White] enters.)
Knock it off.
What’s going on?
(to himself)
It’s a bloody madhouse!
I’m just asking if Charming would like some of my rosehip tea.
But I’m allergic to tea!
I wasn’t asking you!
Nobody wants your stupid tea!
(MIRANDA [Little Mermaid] is fuming. CHARMING asides to her.)
If I leave, do you think they’ll notice?
Stop shouting!
(MIRANDA [Little Mermaid] storms off-stage.)
My tea is the pride of the duchy.
What? What’d I say?
Oh please, my hair was the pride of the -
(RAPUNZEL shrieks when ROSE pulls her hair.)
Nobody cares about your dumb hair!
Let go of me!
(ROSE [Beauty and the Beast] and RAPUNZEL tussle.)
Stop it!
(CHARMING glances cautiously at the princesses, and then quickly leaves. OLIVE [Princess and the Pea] and NARCISSA [Sleeping Beauty] enter. OLIVE [Princess and the Pea] nearly runs into the fighting girls, and leaps out of the way to avoid getting hit. NARCISSA [Sleeping Beauty] whistles loudly, and the fighting stops.)
What in the Gingerbread Man’s name is going on here?
(ROSE [Beauty and the Beast], RAPUNZEL, and SNOWFLAKE [Snow White] start talking at once.)
I just wanted to have some time with Prince Charming and give him a taste of my tea, then this Tower Snob tries to –
Stockholm Syndrome here was insulting Charming, and she insulted my hair, she was pulling on it, and –
They were fighting, I couldn’t stop them. I tried, but they wouldn’t listen, and then they were screaming and it hurt –
Shut up!
(to herself)
This is embarrassing on so many levels.
(to the others)
Listen up! I don’t want to see any more of this despicable behavior. Just because we are rivals for the prince’s love does not mean we have to lose our self-control.
(pause)
So from now on, if you want to make your point, you’ll do it on the down low, behind everyone’s back.
(The princesses exchange glances or glares for a few dramatic moments. ELLA [Cinderella] pokes her head in.)
Has anyone seen my shoe?
End of Scene
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