Nano day 9... Road Block

Yep, a road block.

I'm working on my Snakry Girl story... [think I'm gonna call it 'Midnight Rose'] and landed in a place where, I'm not sure where to go to next.  I know edits will have to happen later, and I like where I'm at... But I can't figure out what's going to happen next.

Or rather, how I'm going to get there.  Its feeling more and more like a full on novel, not a short story.  Which isn't bad, but kinda odd for something that started with the prompt 'Paragons of Innocence.'

Still, I'm at 33,400 in my WC today, and I'm averaging enough to keep this up.  I stopped early last night, because I got the 'second week dumps', which I don't want.  I mean, this is amazing... I'm over the day 20 goal, on day 10!!  The three years I did this one and one, I never won much more than 2 days before the end of the month.  Heck, most of the time I was writing like the wind on the last day, just to get it all in.  But this time, I could do this thing.

And its not just 'Oh, I'm amazing' that's the reason.  Between Conquer the Craft in August, and writing sprints in Sept and Oct with the Speed Dragons, I've been getting things done for a while now.  All thanks to the wonderful people who've pushed and encouraged me along the way.

If anything, this years has been a HUGE 'you can doooo eeeeet' for me.  On all fronts.  And I'm thankful for that.

Anywho... no snidbits, cause I'm at a place where I'll be giving away too much of the story and I want ya'll to buy it at some point, not knowing all the secrets it has to offer.

I'd LOVE if some folks shared their numbers with me, plus how they were able to push through the 'omg... I'm only done with the first week?' part of week two.

Kristy C

When a story stalls...

I'm working on the Fairy Tale Murders, and the story seemed to be zooming along when tonight...

Nothing.  I reached a place and my muse seemed to pull away.  Something in it feels off and I can't figure out just what that is.  It could be that I'm moving too fast, or that I missed something, or that I'm not letting the story do what it needs and fighting against it.

Either way, I got stalled out of it.

On the plus side, after skipping a sprint I did another and popped out a 830 word, almost complete story... Which I'm going to share some of with you here.  :D

The prompt was 'Dark and Stormy Night' and an Epic Horse... I got the first one in.

Most stories start on dark and stormy nights, because they’re setting the stage for what’s about to happen.  In Erra Lash, its always like that so we’re pretty used to it.  Which is why my story has a different opening line… Besides this one at least… I mean… Oh, you’ll see. 

The sun peeked through the normally darkened skies and smiled down upon our small village.  To date, that had only happened seven times in two hundred years, and only twice was it a good thing.  Both had been when our leader married someone the goddess approved of greatly. 

Any other time she parted the clouds was seen as a sign of her anger at us.  See, Cess was hidden away from us, looking through the clouds to watch our world.  In this way, she could leave us to live as we wanted, with minimal interference.  Only when someone’s sins were so great that even through the cover she could see it, did she part them to dispel justice.

Kristy C