April 27, 2006
Yay! I’m on page six, Yay!
So I have started a new rough draft! And I have been writing for the last hour and eighteen minutes on the story. I did a bit more planning writing before starting the rough draft. So far the story is very interesting and it is like the Strylar story I recently completed and was one of the best things I wrote. I’m interested in the story and I’m trying to make it “deep” and using the “show not tell” method and trying to weave threads of subplots into the story and all sorts of things. But the main point of the story is that I like it and that there is a lot of action that could happen in it and that it has a high probability of being even longer than the other story. So I’m quite pleased.
Also in my accomplishments for the day of Thursday (it’s no longer Thursday) was making a hat and matching dress. The resulting combination is either an old English clown or turn of the century high fashion with perhaps a nod to regency gowns. In other words… Interesting. It’s in peach and green and I used a different sort of ruffle which is also… Interesting. So I learned something new today and Continued writing on a story for the second day in a row (I did the first ideas for this story last night so this is the second day of production). I’m looking forward to writing more on it tomorrow. I’m hoping it will turn out to be an interesting story and one of the characters actually got a description! Quite a long one and just for the fun of it I think I’ll post it. This book is written form the main characters point of view in first person.
Today I planned to once again peruse the old legend section of the library. I entered the library, smiled briefly at the librarian who smiled back in the kindly way that spinster librarians seem to have, then I went to the old legend section. In a quiet corner and screened off by book cases from the rest of the library it was very quiet there, and very archivish.
As I turned around the book case which led into the section I was suddenly surprised by the fact that I wasn’t the only person there. Someone else was already there and that someone was like no one else I’d every seen before.
Boney hands were holding a book which dark brown eyes were examining. Rough weather stained clothes clad the person and on a rough leather belt there hung a sword of curious design. Lank black hair was tied back revealing a tanned face as bony as the hands. My observations were suddenly cut short when I realized that the book was no longer being observed by those brown eyes, but that I was being looked over.
I had half a mind to say something and what I felt like saying was “From the looks of you there might have been a famine” just to see if my reply would be, Form the looks of you, you might have caused it” just like a conversation that had happened in a joke book I had read. But I didn’t say anything. The adventurer, for adventurer I assumed the person was, didn’t say anything either. We stood looking at each other.
And there you have it. An excerpt from the book which probably doesn’t tell you much but that was the introduction of one of the key characters of the book who is right with the main character in importance. And so that you know, the main character weighs at the beginning of the book 220 pounds. The book title, as I have currently named it, is “How I lost 100 pounds and gained 180 pounds” which I suppose isn’t a remarkably interesting title but it was when I chose to name the story that. I can always change the name later if I want to.
So there is big news brewing about and hopefully soon I will be able to announce that I have completed this story and that it is long and that I like it and so forth and etc.