AMIYS is going better, btw.  I’ve been plugging away at it even though November’s over.  And I have a fantastic idea for 2012.  But I will finish RWTF.  Because while the story’s really meh, I love the characters.  This has been an update.

Completely random excerpt because I can’t believe folks still read this blog!:

Jonah was sitting next to her. “You need to sleep,” he said.

She knew he was right. Her body was heavy. Her mind was heavy. Her heart, her eyelids… She sank into the bed, into the blankets, down into the water below the surface. She was sinking fast, going deeper and deeper into sleep. No, not sleep. Into the depths of the ocean. She was drowning. She couldn’t breathe. She was –

“Miranda?”

She startled awake. “Sorry, sorry,” she croaked. “I must’ve drifted off for a second.”

Spoiler: she was asleep for like an hour.  I was trying to write that sort of place where you’re drifting off into sleep and lose control of your thought process, but still think you’re in control of it.

As an aside, one of the reasons I’m itching to finish this thing is because I’m actually excited to edit it.  Most people dread this step but I’m really looking forward to tearing it apart.  Typing it all back up with corrections will suck, but the red-pen edit itself is going to be so much fun.  There’s a lot of half-developed concepts and themes, as well as characters that need fleshed out or just plain cut out (sorry, Megumi, but seriously you only had one line).

Also, it seems when I write, I’m in either plot mode or character mode.  In the past week I’ve blown through a bit over 7500 words.  And it’s all been the climax (if you can call it that).  Plot plot plotty plot.  But I don’t “feel” Miranda at all.  I know how to move her correctly, the right things for her to think and say, but I’m out of touch with her in the way that you’re in your characters’ skins.  Boo.  I’m hoping it doesn’t show when you read it.

I want to do more illustrative sketches like these but the drawing bug has been eluding me for months now.  I love those sketches.  They’re the perfect style for how I’d want to illustrate this story.

Anyway, I am at a point where the climax is mostly over and I need to introduce the (somewhat mild) twist that I’ve kept a secret from everyone.  Having trouble threading it together, not sure how it should all come to be.  So I’m very likely done churning out progress on RwtF until at least after Nanowrimo (unless I get a fit of inspiration while procrastinating on AMIYS).  I’m satisfied with the work I’ve done on it this week, though.

Welp, guess I’m not writing anything in RwtF for another few months!

I do just fine until the story actually needs to move forward to the next major plot point.  I don’t have any adhesive to put all these parts together.  So I just chew on bubble gum all day long and use it to try and stick them to each other and it kinda works for a little bit but then it starts to smell weird and fall apart.

What I’m trying to say is that I hate writing lengthy things.

I kind of crack!ship Jonah and Marietta because I’m a horrible fucking person.