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Action Scenes. Hard.
My first drafts of action chapters are about 500-1000 words. This is pitiful, and caused my outline spreadsheet to say my novel would come in short. So I sighed, and turned sentences into paragraphs. It's now about 2000 words, which is still too short, but at least my...
Sigh.
Action scenes are hard. Let's do math instead!
Unwelcome Bodies, by Jennifer Pelland
This anthology contains several stories I really love, including "Big Sister/Little Sister," "Captive Girl," and "The Last Stand of the Elephant Man." I'm sure I'll love the others just as much. Jennifer Pelland is made of awesome. Therefore, it's only logical that...
Lizardfic stats
Current wordcount: 25,792 Goal wordcount: 80,000 Guesstimated final wordcount: 81,203 Percent of goal done: 32.24% Percent of guesstimate done: 31.76% At this rate, I'll reach my goal on: 5/12/08 At this rate, I'll finish my first draft on: 5/14/08
Uh oh…
I'm currently working on chapter seven. My writer's group just critiqued chapters five and six. I think I need to write faster.
Fear my geek-fu.
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Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.