Writing like crazy
I've been writing a lot this past week, expanding on the story in Eyes to try to explain more about Ryan's father, the mysteries surrounding his disappearance, and what that means for Ryan. It does play into why Red-eyes is after him and Emily in the first place, but I'm being deliberately coy with that, although I'm thinking I'm saying enough that readers ought to be able to make some educated guesses. So far I've written about 4,000 words this week, on top of another 14,000 words I've written previously, for a total of 18,000 words added to Eyes, about 36% more than the original. I expect to write an additional 4,000 words by the end of the weekend, and there may be some more scenes to write after that. Not all of this is completely new material or new scenes. Some of it is just scenes getting longer from the rewrite. In all, I'd estimate about 12,000 words, or 67% are new scenes, the rest is from expansion on old scenes.
Of course, not all of it is going to be quite as fun as a new encounter with Red-eyes. What I wrote today ended up being more of an infodump than anything else. Lots and lots of facts and information, but not all that much storytelling. I find it fascinating, but I'm not sure my readers will. I'd hate to just tell you flat out what I'm writing, but here are a few of my online sources. I have offline sources as well.
Of course, not all of it is going to be quite as fun as a new encounter with Red-eyes. What I wrote today ended up being more of an infodump than anything else. Lots and lots of facts and information, but not all that much storytelling. I find it fascinating, but I'm not sure my readers will. I'd hate to just tell you flat out what I'm writing, but here are a few of my online sources. I have offline sources as well.
