Last Day House-Sitting

Today's the last day I'll be house-sitting and I'm happy with the progress I've made on my story. I've finished another chapter today, which had me stressing out a little since I really wanted to do a good job with it. There were a lot of character introductions I had to do and I wanted to make sure they all came off well. I think they did. Now that it's done I feel pretty happy with the end result and I'm ready to do more.

I still plan to keep writing throughout today and hopefully get a good start on the next chapter, but I have a feeling I wont be finishing it by the end of today. I'm feeling a bit exhausted, but I just keep reminding myself that I only have a few more chapters left.

I'll post again soonish.

House-sitting Again

I started house-sitting yesterday, which means I've got plenty of time to myself to work on my story. Already I've finished two chapters and I have the rest of today and most of tomorrow to continue working on it. I'm coming very close to finishing this book and I'm hoping that by the time I leave here I will be almost done with the actual writing of it. I'm feeling pretty stress-free right now so that's been helping me want to write more.

Well, I don't want to waste my want for writing right now so I'm going to go back to it and post a little later on.

Out of Ink...Hurray!

Just finished another chapter today and I'm feeling great about it. Whatever I happened to have been missing with the last few chapters, I seem to have recaptured. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying this is the best work I've done so far or that it's amazing even. It can still use a bit of polishing, but I think once I get to the point where I type it up I wont have to fuss over it too much. Also as reference to the tittle of the blog post, the pen I've been writing with ran out of ink yesterday. It went completely dry, which I think it pretty cool since I've been using it only for this book. I've never had a whole pen dedicated to one project before, hm...I think I'm a bit insane for thinking so much about a pen.

I know I seem to be making a big deal about one chapter turning out good, but I think I'm more happy about having the urge to write more because of this chapter. It's nice to feel that energy that comes from creating something. I've been missing it for a while.

So I will try and start the next chapter tonight, but I think the bulk of it will have to be done in a few days with the way my schedule being as it is. I'm not even entirely sure what's in the next chapter to be honest, so I don't know how heavy the work load is going to be for me. I'll have to go read my planning and find out.

Instead of story stuff this post I figured I'd give an updated progress report. If the numbers seem a little lower than previous updates it's probably because I'm now taking into account the chapter I missed the first time around.

Progress:

Title: ?% - Haven't made up my mind yet.

Planning: 100% - No need to worry about this step at all (at least not for this book)

First Draft Handwritten: 80% - Not too shabby.

First Draft Typed: 66% - And they're all backed up too. No more lost chapters for me.

Second Draft Typed: ?% - I've changed this because although I've done some I know I'll just start from chapter 1 again when I'm done with the first draft so I don't want to get hopes up, namely my own.

Alright, so that's the new updated progress report. It's sort of comforting to see such high numbers. Well I'll finish of this post and go back to writing. I'll post again later.

Another Chapter Finished and Feeling Satisfied

Just finished another chapter tonight and I must have been in a writing mood because I'm really happy with what I've written. If only I had more time to write.

Color:

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Color plays quite an important role in this series that I'm writing. In fact it is was sort of the basis for the concept of the story. I guess I've always been intrigued by colors and it's something that I feel give the world a bit a life, which is basically where the concept for this story comes in. Anyways I try and focus a lot of my writing with colors by adding them in as much to the description as possible, whether is is by naming a color or describing something to an extent that the reader will hopefully be able to draw from it many colors in many shades.

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I don't know when I'll have time to write over the next couple days, I feel like my schedule is pretty full, but when I find I have time to myself I'll make sure to get back to it. Until next post, bye.