All Cold And No Sleep Makes Michael A Cranky Boy
A miracle has occured. Either that or cats are falling from the sky to match the rarity of this even. I actually caught and passed 's word count during a two hour writing session yesterday evening from 9:00 to 11:00 p.m. (right before I went to sleep).
incendiarymind: 26,758 words
reliantfc3: 26,120 words
The scene that put me over the top was Liam confronting Callum, his former right hand man and now antagonist at the car dealership he works at. It seems as though Callum has become a "snake" (as the racist skins in the alternate history call themsevles due to the bars they frequent flying "don't tread on me" flags in the windows) without Liam's moderating influence and the entire Cane and Candle group has followed suit.
So it gave me the chance to use a line I've been waiting to use for a couple of days: "There’s just one thing that I want to tell you," Liam said, "I expected better of you than to take political lessons from a bonehead. If there’s one thing that a skinhead can never teach you, it’s that there’s more to politics than issues of race."
It wasn't quite how I wanted it to come out in the original formulation but it's what fit with the scene.
There's only one problem with letting the characters take over the scene and guide it the way they wanted. Callum was supposed to come into the fold of the John Harper Society later in the book because Liam lets him in (the invitation is extended due to his procurement skills). Liam practically took his Callum's head off for calling Mia a "coolie" and a "mongrel" (Mia is Indian as I've said before). So at some point really soon these two are going to have to make up.
The other problem the scene creates is that Liam screeds against the violent actions the Cane and Candle crew is about to underrtake with the local snakes. Now how does this fit in with Liam eventually being the trigger man (though a gun's not going to be used) in the assassination attempt?
The Harperites are going to have to do some real convincing to get Liam to turn to violent action against the powers that be. Though I think some things that happen in the election are going to really turn him off to peaceful solutions.
At least now I'm excited to be writing again since there are some big problems to solve and some storylines awaiting. I'm so excited that I may actually carry the story through into NaNoFiMo. Hades, maybe in the end I'll get past the 93,000+ words I did last December.
2004 NaNoWriMo: 30,827 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 26,758 words
incendiarymind: 26,758 words
reliantfc3: 26,120 words
The scene that put me over the top was Liam confronting Callum, his former right hand man and now antagonist at the car dealership he works at. It seems as though Callum has become a "snake" (as the racist skins in the alternate history call themsevles due to the bars they frequent flying "don't tread on me" flags in the windows) without Liam's moderating influence and the entire Cane and Candle group has followed suit.
So it gave me the chance to use a line I've been waiting to use for a couple of days: "There’s just one thing that I want to tell you," Liam said, "I expected better of you than to take political lessons from a bonehead. If there’s one thing that a skinhead can never teach you, it’s that there’s more to politics than issues of race."
It wasn't quite how I wanted it to come out in the original formulation but it's what fit with the scene.
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There's only one problem with letting the characters take over the scene and guide it the way they wanted. Callum was supposed to come into the fold of the John Harper Society later in the book because Liam lets him in (the invitation is extended due to his procurement skills). Liam practically took his Callum's head off for calling Mia a "coolie" and a "mongrel" (Mia is Indian as I've said before). So at some point really soon these two are going to have to make up.
The other problem the scene creates is that Liam screeds against the violent actions the Cane and Candle crew is about to underrtake with the local snakes. Now how does this fit in with Liam eventually being the trigger man (though a gun's not going to be used) in the assassination attempt?
The Harperites are going to have to do some real convincing to get Liam to turn to violent action against the powers that be. Though I think some things that happen in the election are going to really turn him off to peaceful solutions.
At least now I'm excited to be writing again since there are some big problems to solve and some storylines awaiting. I'm so excited that I may actually carry the story through into NaNoFiMo. Hades, maybe in the end I'll get past the 93,000+ words I did last December.
2004 NaNoWriMo: 30,827 words
2005 NaNoWriMo: 26,758 words
posted by incendiarymind at 6:53 AM
2 Comments:
That's the great thing about fast writing--you don't have much time to agonize about sticking to your plan so your story could go off into another tangent. Sounds like the unexpected path your story has gone is turning out to be quite productive for you.
The story was expected, just not where it ended up being place and how deep he's getting into racist skin ideology. Personal things intervened and made this storyline take the forefront more. And I promised not to do that this year. Pish!
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