Activity

@rose-colored-fancy

How have you been? How are life, school, writing, and the weather? (You know, the important things

My apologies for the belated response, life has been busy, but in a good way. My family and I are on our way back from Georgia state, and all of its great weather, people, and tall pines.

Writing has been going well. I was able to keep the manuscript a little under 200k, and I started preparing for my first round of revision a little over a week ago, and I hope to begin by this weekend.

School is school and college is college, but I’m enjoying them–though trips and social excursions always suck my enthusiasm and make me want to only talk with people and enjoy the company of friends. Downsides to the gregarious nature I suppose. xD Keep pushing forward in that world of physics. You’ll get through it eventually–probably in one piece. 😉

We’ve had three massive storms over the course of six days. Respectively, Dudley, Eunice, and now Franklin. Eunice was the worst. We didn’t have any serious damages (A few things fell over and broke, a bunch of dead branches everywhere, and one of our plum trees ripped in half) It was stressful but could have been a lot worse. Let me tell you it’s not fun to hear a hundred-year-old house creaking around you with that kind of massive wind.

Wow. Y’all’s house is 100 years old?

Everything is one big mud puddle and I honestly can’t remember last time I saw the sun, so I’m very done with winter.

Amen. I was done with winter after the first week.

Oh, and I have an anecdote related to how the horses handled the storm, remind me to tell you.

Let’s hear it. 🙂

The HEMA club announced that we’ll be hosting the National championships this year, but it’s on a Saturday so I won’t be attending. An immense pity, they need voulenteers and it would have been really fun to see. However they’ll hopefully be recorded so I can at least watch them afterward.

Ouch, I feel ya, but good for you for putting worship first.

Writing has been… difficult at best. I’m not stuck, I know what to write, I just struggle to actually write it. I’m still on track but mostly because I had a big head-start. I just started on the first midpoint at 72k. Since we last spoke, my characters have gotten in fights, commited arson, and hurled snakes at people, so it certainly hasn’t been boring. (I wish this was an exaggeration but all of these things actually happened.)

Yeah, it can be tough to keep it up everyday, but it sounds like it’s been fun to write, so keep it up. That snake scene has piqued my interest. 🙂 Who threw it at who?

(I don’t know how but I managed to have four midpoints. Two character midpoints and two plot midpoints, and they all happen consecutively, so that’s chaos.)

I definitely feel you there. Book 2 of my series is going to get insane when it comes to midpoints.

Besides that I got a new story idea (a loosely contemporary mystery) and the two main characters promptly emerged, considerably developed, and started talking to me. Unfortunately they’ve done nothing but cause trouble and nag me, so I finally relented and wrote one of their scenes as a short story. I hope that’s enough to keep them in the back of my mind until the trilogy is finished, but I doubt it. It’s surprisingly interesting though. They’re really interesting characters, I have to admit. They have a cool dynamic.

I read your mystery post as well, and first off, anything inspired by Christie already has me pumped. Due to my exorbitant love of mystery detective whodunit, I thought I would write mystery too, but the medieval side of me won out. If I can think of any advice on plotting or pacing a mystery I’ll let you know, but I’m surprisingly bad at solving, let alone conceiving mysteries, despite the amount of Sherlock and Hercule Poirot that I’ve read.

Two quick questions:

Firstly, are than any traditions, customs, styles, etc.. that I could add to my Jewish character other than tzitizt for worldbuilding flavor? Things that could be mentioned or very quickly described?

Secondly, I have a character in my book whose flaw and misbelief cause them to be pretentious, bombastic, and arrogant.  This flaw makes her an annoying character, but the problem comes in when looking at her overall arc. She is a side character in book 1 and a more major character in book 2, but I had it planned so that her midpoint was in book 3. Is that possible or am I dragging it out too long? I would add plenty of conflict and redeeming moments in book 2, but I wasn’t sure if that would be enough.