Saturday, February 22, 2014

Spirit Jar Word Count

word count: 15,858 words.  Going into a third major revision that will focus the humor and make it darker.  I've got a better idea of how to position my character, Booth between Wilson and Edison.  Also a new force, the orphan Blake, has made an appearance.  A war for the future will take place in Cleveland, in 1880.

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Spirit Jar word count

15,474 words for the whole project.  Continuing to revise and make character changes.  Today I worked on adding more humor.

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Spirit Jar part 2 word count.

4777 words for part 2 of the Spirit Jar.  Many ideas are swirling around.  Perhaps make EAP the protagonist -- even to revise the work to focus on him -- a set of short stories dealing with his life from 1849 to the 1880s.  Or that could be the second novel, after this one.  TE is still fun to work with.  Booth will now take a secondary role in this book, I think.  Much rewriting will be needed after the first draft is done.  But getting toward 20,000 words!  15,000 soon!

Thursday, February 6, 2014

part 2 word count: the Spirit Jar

so, part 2 of the Spirit Jar has 4144 words --almost half of part 1 already!  The work progresses!  I'm back to writing a scene with the old main character, Booth.  He meets with the Antagonist, EA -- who may be the new main character, depending on how his sections go versus the sections with TE, the current protagonist.  I've never had a writing project do so much seesawing.  I think it's a good sign.