WriMoNoMo: February 2013 | Week Four

[meltintall3]

words written in February: approx. 35,000
projects worked on: 5
goals met: ...I'll be generous and say 2
satisfaction level: 95%



Snippet

The carefully carved wooden weights sat on the map, keeping the edges from curling and marking spots where the beasties were known to lurk. He'd opened the shutters on the window to let in the autumn sunshine and the warm rays danced over his lean hands as he moved the smaller set of figures that represented the resources he had at his disposal here and there.
He didn't like any of his choices.

Black Serpent

Comments

[valiantarcher.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Congrats on the 35K! :D And hurrah for being 95% satisfied! :D Which 2 goals did you meet? Black Serpent & the unicorn one?

Oooh, nice! Strategy board? (...I have never figured out how those work :">) Poor fellow for the lack of good choices, though. :(

[meltintall3.livejournal.com]

Thank you, thank you. :D

Unicorn is, somewhat astonishingly, really no further to being resolved than it was when I started. I'd say it's mostly notes on where the characters are coming from and I...let myself be distracted from getting to the scene where my hero stomps off in a huff and getting it right. There was progress but not completion.: ">

I'm not counting Black Serpent as done either, since it's mostly just the fleshed out version of what I had when I started- -no more, no less. ;))

No, I have Rabbit Trail which is a mess, but it's there. I think. And the second winner was the beginning of a scene in HN: SotTitA--which seems to be about halfway done, so yay! ;))

Strategy boards seem to be for tactile visualizations, ie I have 20 guys in these hills, if they all twist an ankle these 40 guys over here by the lake are going to laugh...

[valiantarcher.livejournal.com]

Aww, too bad Unicorn isn't further along. :( But at least there are more notes, and some progress! :D

Aww. Well, fleshed out sounds like more to me. ;)

Yay! :D Hurrah for Rabbit Trail then! And hurrah for a scene in HN: SotTitA! :D (I thought you were taking a break, but I'm not complaining at all. ;) )

But how do you predict what people will do? And how they will act and move? I get it's a visualization, but I don't understand how it actually works. :/ Which might be part of why I've never been that great at chess. :P

[meltintall3.livejournal.com]

...yeah, I guess it just isn't quite ready to be done yet. I'll have to bake it longer. ;))

(I...was. I am. Except when I'm not. ;)) )

Chess is a good analogy, since I know that it involves probability trees or something. But other than that I think a strategy board is just a lot of guesswork and maybe some bluff.

[valiantarcher.livejournal.com]

Aww. :( But, I guess that's how it goes. (That was how it was going with the cinnamon rolls tonight...)

(Ah, well, like I said, I can't complain. ;)) )

...I have no idea how those work. :P Ah, guesswork and bluff I can understand, though. ;))

[ladyadeone.livejournal.com]

95% satisfaction level, hmm? That's pretty good, congratulations!

That's a great excerpt - definitely makes me want to read the story. Good descriptive bits - it's visual (if you know what I mean - I can see it) but not running into too much detail. :)

[meltintall3.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

I'm glad to hear it! I appreciate knowing what works for a reader and why. :)