Jeanie Writes Genre

I managed to cram a couple of word sprints into my day, and as such wrote over fifteen hundred words of novel. THF now stands at over 50,000 words, which I think is a little over half way finished. I hit the big emotional climax of Act 2, and now I'm transitioning into Act 3, which will be lots and lots of action mixed with angst. The angsty parts I should fly through; the action will plod a little more slowly. I know it sounds like that should be the other way around, but I have to see a fight or a battle scene clearly in my brain before I can write it, and it always takes me a while to mentally stage and choreograph it and get a clear picture. It's going to be a pretty epic battle, too. It's daunting. I am daunted.

I had a minorly epic showdown for the climax of This Old Haunt, and I got through that by listening to the battle music from "Chosen" over and over on a loop. It might serve me well to watch that again, to get a refresher course on pacing and fight choreography. But I need to be in the mood to have a good cry first. So far I've only been able to watch that episode once since it originally aired, and it didn't hurt me any less. But this isn't a Buffy blog, so... moving on.

At any rate, it feels a bit like I'm heading into the home stretch. It's a long home stretch, but it's been a long marathon. I'm getting my wind back, and that'll see me through.

Labels: Hero+Factor, progress+reports, writing life