Week 2
Week 2 has reached its end and it’s time for me to report in. As word counts go, I’m keeping up nicely. I don’t think that’s a mark of any particular cleverness on my part, I think it’s just a sign I may have somehow managed to set an attainable target for myself.
I’m wondering whether I’ve caused myself unnecessary problems by giving myself such a small cast of characters. Compared to my last little project, where I had a whole continent’s worth of people to draw on if need be, now I only have five, six if you count the somewhat split personality of one. I question my ability to build a whole book out of so few people. But I persist.
The story itself is taking shape as I had hoped. Unlike the last project, I gave myself a rough outline of what I wanted to achieve, more of a guideline than anything else. It’s helped much more than I expected. I am, at heart, still fond of winging it but I can definitely see the advantage of giving myself an idea of what the point of the story is.
So all in all, I’m still ticking along smoothly.