Chapter 1, Draft 1

Well, due to several setbacks (ranging from technological glitches that shouldn't bother me so much, to serious health issues for family members), I didn't manage to write more than a few hundred words yesterday, and today I've only added about another thousand. Fortunately, I've managed to complete the initial full draft of Chapter the First.

Though I am considering ditching the chapter structure. :-P

The current wordcount is ~5500. I've introduced two main characters, mentioned three more, begun to introduce the city of Cartholme and the world around it, and dusted foreshadowing and other background details liberally throughout. Microwave until done, or until it explodes like that pig-lizard in Galaxy Quest.

I don't feel the like the end of the chapter is as....good....as I'd like it to be, even for a first draft, but I'm tired, and I just feel like being able to declare the very first draft, in some way, complete. I think the rest of the evening is going to include less writing, but more reading and rewriting (woot for having a printer! I have a tendency to skim and skip parts when reading something on a computer screen).

Maybe I'll make myself some decaff coffee; I've had too much caffeine already to allow for a cup of chai at this point.

Also: Vista bothers me. Getting my own computer back will be wonderful.

Blessed be,
~Nathan