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Monday, November 1, 2010

Day One

Word count - 4,991

November is off to a great start. I was up until nearly three in the morning, and wrote three thousand words between midnight and the time I went to bed. I'm expecting to write at least a few more thousand today. I'm glad I decided to keep as far ahead of my word count as possible. Some people think writing 1,667 words in a day is hard. I think it would be hard for me to stop myself from writing more than that!

So far, I'm pretty pleased with how things are going. I didn't anticipate that writing a sequel would be so difficult, but I've worked through the first part of reintroducing my characters, and now my plot is getting somewhere! It's so much fun, writing for characters who have developed in the last year. A lot of character development has occurred in just the week and a half or so that's passed between the first book and this one. My main character, Ember, is a lot sadder, a lot more sociable, and infinitely more reliable. She's learning to trust people, and think of them as friends. It's very nice to write for someone who's a little more... up-beat. Even though she's done nothing but mope since the book started. She'll be more cheerful later on, after she gets David back.

I'm sitting on the bed in the extra room in my boyfriend's house right now. It's mostly quiet, but I can hear voices downstairs; his mom, and one of his friends talking. I really ought to be writing, but honestly I'm having trouble concentrating right now. I'm very tired. Maybe I can jot down another thousand words or so in the next few hours.

I can't wait to see where this story takes my characters!

- Aimee

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