Realispree

Evidently things just aren't going to calm down! I'm starting a new job, interviewing for another job (don't ask me why, I just do things), prepping to babysit my mother's dogs and then jet out of town (so I've got to clean, use up all perishable food, board one of my cats, get the other down to my mum's, make sure the apartment is all closed up, etc...), going on dates (one Sunday and one today, blarg!), and still trying to deal with normal stuff like counseling (haters gonna hate), side work for my mum, and Art Class. Fairly certain my brain is going to explode and leak out of my ears.

Feels like I've slipped into Realispree--a reality show in my book that is a painful and dangerous race to the finish. Hopefully it ends better for me than for most Realispree contestants...

PLUS it's my last week at work, and I have a follow-up interview on the morning of my last day. Hope that won't keep us from doing something fun!

Anyway, despite all of that, I'm still managing to create. Not much, mind you, but enough to keep me going. I had enough of a buffer from last week to excuse not writing this weekend, which is good...Saturday I was running around working for my mum, and Sunday I was cleaning my apartment in a vain effort to make it presentable for her first visit since I moved in. I did manage to squeeze out 591 words on Friday and another 794 yesterday, bringing me to a grand total of 22,697. And--not to jinx myself--I feel like today is going to be a really good writing day. I have all sorts of ideas bouncing around my head, and have finally reached the point where the two main characters, Bryn & Mer, are going to properly meet and begin interacting. That'll lighten up the story quite a bit, and should make for some fun scenes with Mer...her life is about to disintegrate, and it'll be fun to watch her picking up the pieces.

...so I like to torment my characters. So sue me! It'll all work out for the best!

...ok, no it won't. Not in this book. Oops, sorry about that. Spoiler alert!

But if I actually finish this book, and the sequel, things will eventually work out in the third. If I don't get to the third...well, Mer'll have a very, VERY sad life. Poor thing.

Guess that's some incentive for me to get my shit together! Besides, a character I've been DYING to introduce, Pilot, should make her first appearance soon. Pilot is very possibly the most flawed character I've ever dreamed up. I thought of her ages ago. She evolved from a different character, went through many changes, and emerged as this great golden heroine...who is cowardly, unstable, and has little regard for anyone but herself. She's almost childlike in her selfishness and fear (what is that they say about writers always writing themselves???). Originally she was going to be the star of her own story, but I couldn't seem to make any stick. Then she was going into another story that's been percolating in my soggy brain, but she didn't really make sense there. Finally I thought of sticking her in with Bryn & Mer...and she just fit. Of course, if she could argue her case she might not agree...there are pretty terrible times ahead for her, as well...though one could argue that her beau, Bard, fares worse. They're great foils for Bryn & Mer, though, and they ground them more solidly in the world of the rebellion, to which both Bryn & Mer are merely visitors: Mer was a nobody who didn't even realize there was much of a rebellion, while Bryn is an outsider from England (<3 England!).

Ok, I seem to be writing a novel here...and there are other places that I should be doing that. Tootles!

...I hate the way that's spelled. I know it's wrong, but from this point forward I'm spelling it like the name, not the word. Toodles!


Working Title: Bryn & Mer: Nosce Te Ipsum
Word Count: 22,697
Writing Mode: Energized!