The Unification Chronicles

Yes­ter­day was actu­ally fairly pro­duc­tive, and if it were not for my own hubris, I’d be pretty proud of myself. I got 2,075 words writ­ten, includ­ing a tense yet funny scene with Dante, my probably-​​needs-​​to-​​be-​​renamed hacker char­ac­ter, and a lab tech with a place­holder name of Shel­don Cooper try­ing not to get killed by demons. You guys will see the first draft for that posted on the 13^th. I also got some final tweaks done to the Rev­e­la­tion out­line and split the Cru­sade out­line into three acts. I’ll have an arti­cle for JeffKirvin.net next Mon­day about the sacred and dreaded three act struc­ture and why you really can’t get away from it, no mat­ter avante garde you may think you are.

I didn’t get as much done yes­ter­day as I wanted, though, because I still have some bad habits to break. Notably, Big Bang The­ory and Cas­tle. I didn’t even really have to watch Cas­tle, because I knew it would be in my Hulu queue this morn­ing. I ratio­nal­ized it because not only is it an awe­some show with one of my favorite actors, but it’s a show about a best sell­ing nov­el­ist. As for Big Bang The­ory, one of my minor char­ac­ters in the chap­ter I was writ­ing was loosely based on Shel­don, so I had to watch, right? For research. Yeah.

Oh, and I took up the hour after Cas­tle watch­ing the local news tell me how our sub-​​zero Fahren­heit weather can kill you in under an hour while I down­loaded the unabridged audio­book of Stephen King’s Under the Dome to my net­book and synced to my iPhone. All 32 hours of it. Aw yeah. Hey, I sat through Atlas Shrugged unabridged, and this has got to be better.

Hubris. I agreed with Josh that I’d start writ­ing Cru­sade this Thurs­day while he started the first book of Pan­theons. So now I have a hard dead­line for Rev­e­la­tion. I’ve got three chap­ters, about 10,000 words, left to write, and only today and tomor­row to do it. And my day job to deal with. And it’s my mom’s birth­day tonight, so there will be cake over at my sister’s.

If I may quote Nicholas Cage from “The Rock”, “I love pressure…”