Congratulations on 50k! I'll admit I'm more than a little jealous, but I'm siting at 32k myself and feel like I'm doing pretty well. Also it's only 5:30 AM, here (don't ask me what I'm doing up at this ungodly hour. I don't know, either >.x), which means I've still got a full day to write more. I'd really like it if I could break 35k, today, but I'll just have to see how it goes. I, too, believe that my novel's going to take me well past 50k, being the beast that it apparently is.
I was going to try and go back and find a funnier excerpt or something, but I honestly don't have the awakeittude to do that now, and that kind of felt like cheating, anyways, so here's the last thing I wrote:
Terasu looked particularly grim which Chiela didn’t know how to feel about, Surely things couldn’t be that bad, could they? They’d found the place where Ixchel rested, supposedly, and while Chiela wouldn’t have wanted to be left alone out there, amid the savage jungle, she could imagine a worse place for someone who lived by communing with the earth. Although how they were going to take the communer away from the earth without stirring up some kind of trouble, Chiela didn’t know. Maybe that’s what had Terasu was looking so unhappy. After all, she and this Voice seemed to live in some kind of fucked up codependent relationship. A codependent relationship that involved speaking for the planet and ensuring its survival which just made it that much more fucked up, if you asked Chiela.
The best part of this story is, I made up none of these names. They are 100% real. The other main characters are Pipra, Venka, and Nikolao, which are also all real names. The way I go about naming characters, it's probably a good thing my chances of having a child are slim to none. They'd get endlessly teased for their names, alone.
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I was going to try and go back and find a funnier excerpt or something, but I honestly don't have the awakeittude to do that now, and that kind of felt like cheating, anyways, so here's the last thing I wrote:
Terasu looked particularly grim which Chiela didn’t know how to feel about, Surely things couldn’t be that bad, could they? They’d found the place where Ixchel rested, supposedly, and while Chiela wouldn’t have wanted to be left alone out there, amid the savage jungle, she could imagine a worse place for someone who lived by communing with the earth. Although how they were going to take the communer away from the earth without stirring up some kind of trouble, Chiela didn’t know. Maybe that’s what had Terasu was looking so unhappy. After all, she and this Voice seemed to live in some kind of fucked up codependent relationship. A codependent relationship that involved speaking for the planet and ensuring its survival which just made it that much more fucked up, if you asked Chiela.
The best part of this story is, I made up none of these names. They are 100% real. The other main characters are Pipra, Venka, and Nikolao, which are also all real names. The way I go about naming characters, it's probably a good thing my chances of having a child are slim to none. They'd get endlessly teased for their names, alone.