I finished my first chapter! I'm so proud! It's just under 21 pages and just under 11 000 words. That's... a lot. I don't think I've ever written anything this long (Christmas calendars not included because you wrote half of them and I don't even know how long they are). The second closest thing is probably a Star Trek fic I never finished which is like... 12(?) pages at the moment. I mean holy shit. 21 pages!! I mean, and that's jut the first chapter. This thing is gonna be so long, oh man.
I'm taking a bit of a break atm, because the next chapter should be Colin's, but I'm not yet entirely sure what he does. I guess I could skip to the third chapter and write about the dragon growing up and then the birthday party, but I actually really wanna write about Colin. I should probably just.. start writing and see where it leads. I know of one scene I want to be in it, when Colin and Carina are at a bar and then there's this expositional bullshit about the thief and the stolen dragon, and it should probably also have stuff about the dragon riders... And about Colin's role in the palace, hmm.
Ooh, suddenly a flashback scene to the revolution and the dying of the Queen (who was never actually a Queen, huh) oh man. Probably not gonna be in the book tho, but still, it's good to know how the history goes.
There is a lot of info about the characters that i have but I probably won't be able to get into the books.... Y'know, like people's favorite colors and foods, their blood types, and sexualities, and random tidbits about them. Like for example, Robin is claustrophobic. Also, Carina can't swim, Colin has a very low self esteem, Lexlie hated her parents because they pushed her too hard, Tina is very good at reading people and has worked since she was 14 to help support her family. Although now that I think about these, they kinda sound like they could be elements in the book at some point. Maybe.
Anyway. I'm thinking of coming to Kuopio already next week. Because the Easter break starts on Thursday (2nd April), but I don't have school on Wednesday and not really on Monday either, so if my classes on Tuesday aren't like "absolutely must be there super important information" kinda classes, I could come on the previous weekend (28th March). Which would be pretty cool, I would actually have time to hang out with mom and dad before they go on their trip and with Iita before the, uh, whatever thing she has. Are you going to Kuopio at some point?
But yeah, that's really all I have about that. Sorry this is kinda the same thing over and over, but I'm really hyped about this story ahhhh. Bye.
Pie out.
I'm gonna be in Helsinki on the Easter weekend, so I'm not going to Kuopio then. A week after that I'll be in Kuopio, though. And a week after that in Helsinki again, and then Kuopio again. And then it's May.
ReplyDeleteIn May I have four days of school, one half an hour live radio show I don't know what I'm gonna do about, a couple of deadlines school and scouts related, and a university application exam to see if I could finally get in somewhere I care to be. And I'm getting two off my wisdom teeth removed because apparently my lower jaw is too small for all the teeth despite the fact there's already one tooth fewer than normal.
So I'm gonna be busy for the next month and a half, and then I have time to breathe again.
~matu