I’m not vic-k and I’ll never be as capable of supporting others as he was. Dig deep and hear him telling you “this is just a time, soon it will pass.” He told me that a lot. A. Lot.
And when you have time, feel free to lean on me a bit. Maybe together we can be just enough Vic to get through to the other side in one piece.
Just what I feel. Trying to make sense of my chapter was the biggest challenge this time, rather than feeling completely out of my depth with genre like the last two times I took part.
Done! The benefit of being in this time zone is that I have lots of time to mull my concept. The drawback is that I have to start writing as soon as I wake up.
This year’s genre was … my spouse’s favorite. One of these days, I swear the story will be about something I know about (and will have no excuse for getting badly wrong). Some day.
My chapter is as done as it will ever be. Submitted to the master monkey, ready for assembly. I am looking forward to the last of the five stages of NIAID, a little nap.
I was really concerned when I started this one that I would struggle to find things to say in my chapter. There’s quite a lot of specifc detail I wanted to get halfway right, with the danger that it overtakes the business of telling an interesting story! But as before I found that eventually I can sit down and spew out words, and a reasonably complete first draft has been done. Now I’ve “just” got to edit it. I have a little unnecessary (for the main plot) substory for colour that I have to decide whether I have time to include…
Done and submitted. I have no idea why I struggled with this one. I should know a little bit more about this from all the crime shows I watch, but sadly, all that knowledge escaped me when I stared at the blank white page (or rather cream since I wrote it on my iPad). The urge to have one of my characters scream, “you can’t handle the truth” was there, but I decided against it after mulling it over.