I had a pretty broken sleep so I was up early enough to decide that I had time to write.

I’ve ended another scene and am working on another! I’m a bit nervous about this one, solely because I know it’s going to take a while for me to plow through it. While it’s not anything ground-breaking or difficult plot-wise, it’s the characterization and history of my characters that will really have to be a focus.

I don’t think it will be too difficult to work on. Just time-consuming. It’s going to be a lot of talk between three characters, and the dialogue has to bring up their past together. I have to get this right, for technically, this conversation explains why the characters are the way they are up until this point in the book.

It’s going to be one helluva ride! (That’s true, too. They’re in the ships cockpit, flying through space in this conversation.)

I haven’t listened to Mostly Autumn in forever. I have a few of their albums, but I really enjoyed their live performances. “The Fiddler’s Shindig” is just that. With a handful of awesome songs, it’s a relaxing way to start the morning and to write along with.

Until tomorrow, folks!

I don’t like to think I had writers block today, but I guess I did.

I came up with the general plotting and dialogue for the next scene, but I just couldn’t put the location and scenery into words. I guess I had half-writers block? Is that a thing? Can I coin that idea?

Anyway, I wasn’t too impressed with how writing turned out today, but that’s alright! I still have twenty days more to go, and plenty of time to boot!

If there was only more time in the day!

I decided to break out Marillion’s “Misplaced Childhood” today, because it is just a pretty album. Ballads and sappiness. While that wasn’t what I was writing about, it just felt right for tonight.

Let’s listen to Kayleigh, shall we?

Until tomorrow, friends!

Today feels like a write-off for me.

I’ve struggled getting a full nights sleep for almost three weeks now. Today it has caught up with me.

Fortunately, I’m not giving myself that “word limit” to deal with, so I spent today working on everyone’s favourite subject: grammar!

Believe it or not, I was dealing with capitalization with my story. While that doesn’t sound too complicated, it is when dealing with proper nouns and names. Especially when – in a science fiction novel – there’s a lot of pilots. When do you capitalize the “C” in captain? Is it when you give the name? “Captain Derek?” What if you refer to Captain Derek later as captain? Do you capitalize the second “captain?”

Obviously through my sentences, I gave those answers away. There’s a few other situations where it was a problem – not to mention I have other ranking people in the story. Priests, fathers, mothers, presidents, lieutenants, privates, generals. . . and so on! As soon as I came home from work today, I went through my whole story and made the necessary adjustments. That’s all I have in me for the day though. I need to take tonight off to relax.

A lot of folks at work are getting sick. I cannot afford to get sick either.

I listened to my favourite Summoning album today: “Stronghold.” They are a ambient black metal band with music and lyrics primarily tied to the Lord of the Rings books. Despite the “scary” nature of that album cover, they’re music is really relaxing for me. It definitely helped me wind down.

Until tomorrow, friends!