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ellarienThere's one downside to all the writing I've been doing lately; it really cuts into my reading time! As far as I remember, the total number of books I read from start to finish this month was ... two. I'm partway through three (or four, or five, depending how I count) others, and I think I'll save the February book post until I'm done with at least a couple of those.
Vortex is moving along quite nicely -- 18,310 words now. I actually committed a small amount of wordage before breakfast, a thing I never do as a rule, but then left the handheld -- and my entire purseload of things-to-do-on-the-bus -- at home by mistake. I'm wondering about some of the earlier bits, though. There's an opening scene with a drawn-from-life character who has absolutely nothing to do with the story except to waste Harry's time and set the mood. Then there's one of the incidents in the backstory (the thing is really about four episodes of a continuing saga with the first three folded up into flashbacks), which seems as though it deserves more fleshing-out, except that in the context of the story it really doesn't; I needed something to snap Louise out of a funk after a serious illness, and the thing with the hijacked cruise liner was what came to mind. (Or maybe the cruise liner came first and the illness was originally backstory for that; it was a long time ago and I don't usually keep notes of the evolution of my internal soap operas.)
Vortex is moving along quite nicely -- 18,310 words now. I actually committed a small amount of wordage before breakfast, a thing I never do as a rule, but then left the handheld -- and my entire purseload of things-to-do-on-the-bus -- at home by mistake. I'm wondering about some of the earlier bits, though. There's an opening scene with a drawn-from-life character who has absolutely nothing to do with the story except to waste Harry's time and set the mood. Then there's one of the incidents in the backstory (the thing is really about four episodes of a continuing saga with the first three folded up into flashbacks), which seems as though it deserves more fleshing-out, except that in the context of the story it really doesn't; I needed something to snap Louise out of a funk after a serious illness, and the thing with the hijacked cruise liner was what came to mind. (Or maybe the cruise liner came first and the illness was originally backstory for that; it was a long time ago and I don't usually keep notes of the evolution of my internal soap operas.)
