Ryan Leeds

Yesterday's goal was to knock out one of the chapters completely. Not surprisingly that didn't happen, considering I've had an itch for watching The West Wing lately and that's a lot of writing.

I did get 1,626 words done and almost finished the chapter, though. Or maybe I did finish the chapter and this one's just really short. Sometimes it's hard to tell.

Sadly, I did not make the milestone I was hoping to make yesterday, which was the 10k mark on my manuscript. I am still 250 words shy of that. If I don't make that mark today, I'm going to be very disappointed in myself.

Sketched out a YA sci-fi novel today that covers all of the restrictions of my challenge. It's pretty cute, about a boy and his dog, fixing things that adults have screwed up, like adults do. It's 22 chapters long, which means as long as I keep the chapters under 2000 words, it should come out to a decent size.

I'm having a little trouble starting the first chapter, but I was gifted a copy of Scrivener, so I will have an easier time working non-linearly if I need to. I'll focus on more of it tomorrow when I'm not running around the courthouse again. (Doing last step name change things until my hearing.)

Am thinking about doing some character development work with Loren. I need to figure out some things before I start doing tentative storyboarding for little scenes. The Angel Project has been thrumming in my head for a couple days now. I'm trying to read about writing a graphic novel so I can properly work on some things. It's really different than I'm used to.

I think I'm still going to write my velociraptors story even though it's thematically similar to a lot of my other writing. There are a few sticking points in it that make me really happy. Like the fact that the protag files her teeth. But most of my effort is going to be going into The Clockwork Ghosts.