Its Tuesday. Since I last posted I have moved my word count upwards of 25,000. I should be around 33,000 words by now, so I need to pick up the pace and make some real progress over the Thanksgiving Holiday. Luckily I will be riding the train for 4.5 hours on Turkeyday up to my family in Fort Worth, so I plan to sit in the observation car, plug in and tear up writing. The internet connectivity is typically non-existent on the train, so no distractions. I do wish that the Amtrak train that runs the San Marcos - Fort Worth route would get outfitted with it though. Makes doing research on the fly very difficult as cell coverage is also quite limited in the more remote points of the trip.
As I go back and look at my writing thus far, I find that almost all of my chapters, or sections are right around 8,300 words. Is that coincidence you think? Is that just my style, or where my mind thinks good breaks in the story should happen? I dunno, but it is kinda freaking me out.
I mentioned in my last post that I had come up with a way to merge the real world and my fantasy world together, so I have been juggling between just writing in the real world and moving back into my fantasy land to finish off the last chapter I was working on. I have developed my female main character in the real world, her name is Caitlyn. Caitlyn is finishing her studies in Linguistics at Harvard University and has stumbled upon a journal written in an unknown language that has led her to a very remote area where a scientific/archeolgoical dig will reveal findings that shatter everyone's paradigm!
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