Chapter 11

[cl0ckw0rkf0x]

I'm getting addicted to livejournal. I'm checking it like all the time.

Anyway, I got chapter eleven typed out, and by the next day there were two posts from friends that mention it. Now, I tend to have trouble telling how other people feel, being autistic, but things in writing get the point across to me better, and I'm forever watching for signs, so I figure if it was good enough to be mentioned that quickly, it must have been good.

So different from the lukewarm responses I'd get about my old story, that I worked on so long and scrapped about 7 months ago to start Timekeeper. Responses to that were like "yeah, that was pretty good, I enjoyed it." Compared to "You have to write more of that story, I read it all in one sitting!" And I was getting that when it was over 30 000 words long.

Chapter 12 should be along pretty soon, I might start working on typing it out at work tonight. It's the start of the chapters I wrote for Nano, so it will probably sound rushed, and I'll probably do a lot of editing, and adding stuff I forgot in. But it's a slow point in the story, and it's possibly just as well that Nano forced me to plow through those three chapters or I might have been working on them for months.

Comments

[keith187.livejournal.com]

I liked chapter 11. The whole book is really good once you start to read it you can't stop, and are disapointed when you get to the end, because it's not finished yet.

[lindenfoxcub.livejournal.com]

In writing this, I've learned something profound: as long as the sentence structure is clear enough the reader's not stumbling over the text, and the plot is interesting enough and the pace is kept moving fast enough, you can get away with a crapload of shoddy writing.