Man, I’ve been busy this week. I have been making progress–750 words isn’t bad, even if it is lower than I’d like–but I haven’t moved past this one scene. It’s kind of frustrating.
I have the next couple of scenes figured out in my head, and I’m really excited to get to them (they’ve got all kinds of action and explosions and such), but the more I try to get there, the longer and longer the current scene becomes.
It’s not a bad scene. It’s just…unexpected. The plan was to quickly show Mira and Tristen entering one of the planetary domes for the first time and their awe at the lush, rolling agricultural land inside. Instead, it’s morphed into a confrontation with customs and security at the entrance to the dome.
I considered cutting it all out, but as I read over it I realized that it seems to be working. I sat down tonight, hoping to get past there so I could start tomorrow with the exciting stuff, but now it looks like other characters are getting drawn in. Grr…
In all reality, though, this is probably a good thing. The story is starting to take on a life of its own, and the characters are starting to act for themselves instead of having me pull the marionet strings all the way.
At least, that’s what I hope is happening. I still worry that Tristen is a little too flat.
In the meantime, I saw something interesting on the Publisher’s Lunch email for today. A minor publisher is offering to give away free books to bloggers who promise to post reviews of the book on their blogs and on Amazon. Free books, eh?
I checked the list of books available to review so far, and it looks like most of them are either non-fiction and/or mainstream Christian, but the concept is very interesting. If a minor sf/f publisher were to do the same thing, I’d be all over it.
Oh, and this made me laugh today. I still need to figure out what I’m going to be for Halloween…
