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"Tree of Life" Writing Log

11,894 / 80,000 (14.9%)

New words: 943
Total words: 11,894
Overused word: light
Gratuitous word: canopied
Type of scene: A trade made, and groundwork laid down for some future plot stuff.
Challenge(s): The first sentence. It's always the first sentence.
Which line is it anyways?Too late, he remembered his role as incompetent-in-space.
Notes: A certain portion of the time yesterday I spent just staring into space as key bits fell into place and the story unrolled itself in my mind. I realized two key things. 1) Leander's going to have to do horrible things for money, and he's going to feel like a monster, and hopeless, and dark-without-choices. People keep telling me that the dark stuff is my writing strength; I might as well go for it. 2) I think this will be a story with two dramatic endings, one for the alien storyline, and one for the ship storyline. Corollary to 1) I'll have to pull out all the stops to keep Leander a sympathetic character, up to and including a small fuzzy animal.
Other writingy stuff:
* Wrote up a Critters critique to get my critique ratio up to snuff before the next chapter of Vicesteed bubbles up in the queue next week.
* Posted writing log
* penthius freewriting, a low potential elevator error.