NaNo Update–Word-wise I’m more than on track for writing through the 14th.  Yay!  My brain’s coming down from the chapter a day experiment although it’s going to be a little more difficult to find where I left off since the chapter numbers don’t correspond to the days anymore.  But I’m doing it!

It was just today that I realized that I don’t have a category on here for Earth Shatterer, the NaNo novel that I’m writing.  Actually, in all fairness, I was planning ES long before I decided to pump it out for NaNo so, in this case, the egg came before the chicken.  Anyway, I realized it was because I was doing the WIP updates in the NaNo update portion of my posts since I started writing it.  That and, unlike DC where I wrote it pretty much at my leisure, I’ve been so wrapped up in maintaining word count with this one since November first that my brain really hasn’t had a chance to stop and think.  So consider this a two week round up of how the writing for ES is going outside of it’s NaNoness.

As the title of the blog suggests, this one’s coming out so much easier than DC (uh . . .).  So much easier.  I don’t have to worry about finding my place in writing, finding the voice, experimenting with the world, finding my footing in it all.  I spent from December of last year to roughly June trying to manage DC and get it going.  I didn’t really start writing it with any degree of flow until around then.  With ES, it’s flowing right from the beginning because I know I’ve found my voice.  Did that with the first one and this one wouldn’t be running like it is if I hadn’t.

That’s not to say the editing’s going to be any easier with this one.  Just the writing’s going good right from the get-go.  With this one, I’ve been noticing that I’ve been starting way too many sentences with pronouns which is never a good thing.  Very amateurish.  ‘He’’s are running the gamut in my writing, along with its female equivalent.  I don’t know why.  Maybe it’s the crazy rushing I’ve been doing trying to get the words out but that’s the major flaw than I’m going to have to take a rat tail comb to when it’s ready to edit.

I had a very solid idea of what I wanted Earth Shatterer to be and so far, it seems to be working out pretty well aside from seemingly minor characters are taking much more vital roles in the story.  And the story itself is twisting.  It’s twisting to such an extent that I didn’t see it coming and I only hope to be able to write it so that the reader doesn’t see it coming either.

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