Sorted Out - Now to Add!

Okay, so 13,531 words and 45 pages (8.5 x 11, 1.5 line spacing) later, I have the stories untangled from each other - looks like I actually have five different yet interconnected stories with a few bits that fall into a miscellaneous category. My goal this month was to write 28,000 words, and I'm nearly half-way there (on the day after the half-way point in the month...but hey!).

Watery Death, plus two

Well, 6,651 words in, I now have three separate and distinct storylines going with connecting characters - Watery Death, Sangre Madre, and Papacita. As soon as I finish untangling the stories from each other, I can start taking each of them to completion!

And On To February...

I finished breaking my first draft of Harken the Change into segments - ended up with 77 segments totalling 164 pages. Now I can take each segment and edit out all the unnecessary adverbs and such and ensure I'm using action and active voice - show not tell! Some of the stuff I saw as I was retyping this into segments made me flinch and squirm in my chair!

Also, I'm signed up for FebNaNo 2009 - I'm aiming for 28K words on a crime/mystery/police novel I've been chewing on since '05 - I found the related files yesterday. Wow, four years I've been working on that one! Working title is Watery Death.