Bone Walker

Back to Bone Walker exclusively tonight, just because that’s where the words seemed to want to go. Still working on the fight scene between Christopher, Kendis, and the nogitsune, and figuring out how to choreograph the actions so that a) they all move farther along the trail to the north, and b) Melisanda has an opportunity to show up and help them drive off the last of the nogitsune. Not quite there yet but at least there was more than a page’s worth of progress tonight.

I kind of want to push for 500 words tonight, but on the other hand, I need to go to bed. And also, I think it’ll actually encourage me more to write tomorrow if I can maintain this feeling of “more writing needs doing!” It’s all about the pacing myself.

Written tonight: 355
Chapter 7 total: 2,078
Bone Walker total (first draft): 18,812

Not as many as last night’s, but hey, there are words and that’s a good thing. And I do hope these are acceptable words. Mostly, they feature heading into the confrontation between Kendis, Christopher, and the nogitsune! It all worked out to about a page added to the Chapter 7 file, and I’m slowly closing in on 20K for the book.

Written tonight: 263
Chapter 7 total: 1,504
Bone Walker total (first draft): 18,238

Only a couple hundred words written tonight, but I am pleased nonetheless!

Written tonight: 212
Chapter 7 total: 720
Bone Walker total (first draft): 17,454

In a bigger than normal burst of words tonight, I’ve actually finished up Chapter 6 of Bone Walker. Mostly, this features Kendis having a quiet but significant realization about the state of things between her and Christopher, one that has hit her at a less than opportune time–like these things tend to do. Which is about all I’ll say about that, because hey, spoilers!

I did actually have to do a bit of followup Googling on the whole cell phone issue, though. Wound up needing to toss off a throwaway line about Kendis taking a picture of something with her phone, and caught myself thinking ‘guh okay, can she do that with a phone in 2003?’ Survey (and consulting of solarbird) says yes. This is what I get for the book being time-shifted back six years, and also for me never getting a phone of my own until 2006!

Anyway, chapter’s done. We’ll see if I can start Chapter 7 some time tomorrow! And since tomorrow’s also Longest Night, this should mean amusing things for my potential word count. But I also have to write a post for the Drollerie Blog Tour this month, so we’ll see!

Written last night: 238
Written tonight: 695
Chapter 6 total: 2,774
Bone Walker total (first draft): 16,734

Because I was totally distracted by Fictionwise’s shiny on-sale ebook goodness and then by Twitter asploding, I got started later on tonight’s words than I wanted, and now I really need to go to bed!

Written tonight: 216
Chapter 6 total: 1,841
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,801

A few more words tonight than last night, which pleases me; also, there are smoochies in these words! And the amusement of trying to figure out how to describe that why yes, Kendis and Christopher are healthy young people with healthy young hormones, but in a laid-back, retro kind of way rather than a “these two are about to rip each other’s shirts off” kind of way. ‘Cause, y’know, I’m old school like that.

Also of amusement: trying to remember that since Faerie Blood was written in 2003 and early 2004 and therefore is really technically set in 2003, this means Bone Walker is late 2003 too. Which means that I need to resist the temptation to think of Kendis’ cell phone as a shiny 2009-style cell phone, because it ain’t. I could handwave it and just skip ahead to 2009, except that I do actually have a throwaway line in Faerie Blood about Kendis being five years old when Mt. St. Helens blows, and she’s 28 in that book. And I’m too much of a stickler for continuity to dismiss that. So!

Now, since an unfortunately timed text message has interrupted the aforementioned smoochies, to figure out how to get our heroine and hero off to the next scene, and finding the nogitsune. By now, I mean, ‘tomorrow’.

Written tonight: 320
Chapter 6 total: 1,625
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,585

Only a couple hundred words again tonight, but given how erratic my pace has been all year, hey, a couple hundred words is a good thing! Chapter 6 inches along, and in tonight’s brief fragment, I do believe I’m getting an opportunity to showcase how Christopher and Kendis’ relationship will have progressed a bit since Book 1. I also just had a bit of a thought as to what’ll need to happen next as they try (and fail) to followup on what just happened to Jude… and there will be segueing into some Warder business as I bring the nogitsune on camera. Which is a bit to work into a single chapter; this may spill over into Chapter 7! We’ll see.

Written tonight: 201
Chapter 6 total: 1,305
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,265

Because I’m peeved that a cold has thrown me off of my writing AGAIN, and because I didn’t want to go to bed without throwing at least a few words at the book, I bumped up the word count on Bone Walker by a couple hundred. Mostly, this gave me time to let Kendis discover a new thing about Christopher: he can get jealous!

And technically, I wrote sixty or so words of this the other day, but I never actually transcribed them out of the Moleskine, so I’m only counting them now. Because I can.

Written tonight: 222
Chapter 6 total: 1,104
Bone Walker total (first draft): 15,064

So yeah, after falling hard off the wagon in mid-November, I’ve had a devil of a time trying to get re-organized for getting back on again. Tonight is my attempt to get that started, ’cause this book? It ain’t writing itself.

Not much done tonight, but I did at least update my outline for Bone Walker a bit, to try to get the initial chapters to reflect what I’ve actually written and lay down the ground work for extrapolating ahead. And I threw a couple hundred words into Chapter Six. Not bad considering I was brain dead for most of the day thanks to staying home with a sore throat, and that I need to go to bed now.

Hopefully more tomorrow!

Written tonight: 213
Chapter 6 total: 882
Bone Walker total (first draft): 14,842