Updates coming

Uh, wow…so I really dropped the ball on posting, eh? Sorry about that. More posts later.

Word Count Update: 7/27

I had no problem nailing 1,500 words down today.

Also, I think I’m going to stop with these daily updates. I think the tedium of them is setting in as I’m really getting into the meat of my story. I already know the characters, the plot’s laid out in front of me, so there’s really nothing new to report.

Keep an eye on this site for other stuff and major announcements about my novel’s progress, but the day-to-day minutiae is out of here unless someone demands otherwise.

I might start doing more reviews and stuff soon, but simultaneously starting a new job and moving is going to put the brakes on that stuff for a little bit.

Word Count Update: 7/25 (Day off edition!)

It just didn’t happen today, and I decided I’d get to bed before 2AM for the first time in two weeks or longer. Back tomorrow!

Word Count Update: 7/19

I’m going to level with everyone here. I haven’t had a job in over three months and it’s really starting to get to me. The money’s drying up and I’m getting incredibly depressed as every resume I send out isn’t getting any sort of reply. Because of this, some would say I’ve gone to a dark place. Damn right I have.

Today was pretty bad in terms of depression, so getting myself in front of the keyboard seemed like it should have been the furthest thing from my mind…occupying my time with moaning and laying in bed wondering how bad things would get seems to be the normal course of events. But no, I got to my computer, fired up Q10 and started to write.

Maybe it helps that the scene I was writing deals with the death of a character, a death that sets the whole book in motion. The stuff I wrote tonight was dark, grim, bleak…and completely fit the scene. I channeled my angst and depression into my characters and put them through hell, making them feel horrible and distraught like I was feeling at the time.

And it worked.

I easily cleared my 2,000 words, though it took me a little bit longer this time, and I think that what I came up with was one of the strongest parts of the book. Now I’m not suggesting getting depressed, pouring yourself a double rum and coke and hitting the keyboard (even though that’s exactly what I did), but instead I would say that if you’re writing something that has a hard, bleak edge to it, try to channel all the things that get you down into your writing. It’s cathartic for you, as you have a sandbox to wound, damage and destroy whatever you like inside the world of your book with no danger to yourself or anyone around you.

At this point I’m spent, though…as cathartic as writing through my depression was, it wiped me out. Until tomorrow…

Word Count Update: 7/16

I hit my quota tonight again…but at this point I’m too tired to write up anything about it. Sorry, maybe more tomorrow.

Instead of my usual recounting of what I did, I’ll leave you with this for no particular reason other than it’s quite possibly my favorite movie of all time: