Jail - Part 5 of Fate Adjuster

I've been remiss in the posting of this short lately.  Part distraction, part I'm not sure I like where it's gone and where it's going.  It's a bit flat as I read it again.  However, instead of spending time rewriting this I'm working on a few other things.  My brain is not wanting to work on one project at a time and I find it a challenge to actually sit down and work on the projects I've already invested a fair amount of time into.  Eventually I'll take my brain to behavior training so that it'll pay attention to what I want done, but for now, read Part 5 after the break.

Mourning - Part 3 of Fate Adjuster

Part three of Fate Adjuster is below the break.  It's a bit short, but it's the full section.  I'm adding the sections around the same time as I post them to additional pages on the side bar.  Take a look there if you want to see it all in one place.


NaNoWriMo is off to a good start on my end.  I hope it's going well for everyone else as well.  Over target by a fair amount for 2 of 3 days.  2k a day is the mantra, but I'm shooting for 2.5k a day.  Sometimes I question my sanity.  Part 4 of Fate Adjuster up next week.

The Rabbit Hole - Part 2 of Fate Adjuster

Right, so part 2 on this short story thing.  I've decided to not try to sell this yet, so instead I'm just going to post it so that people can still read it.  Again, I haven't done much revision yet, so hopefully my quick grammar/spell check will have been enough.  I'm going to start posting these by working section titles.  I'll come back next week with Part 3.  Read on after the break for the section.

The Deal - Part 1 of Fate Adjuster.

I'm currently writing a short story and wanted to let people know about it.  It's mostly so that I can sort out just exactly the character that will be central to my NaNoWriMo book for next month.  So here it is, unedited and completely raw.  Find it after the break.


-Edit-  I've decided to post the rest part by part.  I'll make an index et cetera once it's completed.

The numbers of writing

I'm writing a book.  I'm not trying to make it a very long book, nor is it non-fiction and requiring an abundance of facts and figures collected from outside sources.  It's purely fiction (as pure as fiction can be while rooted in reality).  And it's still not easy to do.  I have a good idea of where I want to be going with the book, but it's more an exercise in trying to actually write everyday and to a high number of words.

If you figure at only 350 words a page for a 200 page book it's 70000 words.  It seems like a lot, and depending on how well I'm writing on any given day I might be able to produce 1000 words.  Those are still the good days.  I'm hoping for closer to 2000 words a day.  I figure if I can average about 750 words a day over the course of a week if I'm doing well and actually able to write in the direction I want the story to go.

So with those numbers and assuming I actually average 750 words a day it will take me 93 1/3 days to write the book.  Or, at 5 days a week 18 2/3 weeks.  About four and a half months or so.  This isn't really fast enough to suit my liking as it's becoming more and more difficult to continue with the book I'm trying to write.

It's one of the reasons I've started writing here as well.  I wondered if perhaps my mind was starting to get one dimensional in my writing and I needed to add another facet to my writing to both pursue the other random thoughts bumbling around my mind like the people leaving a bar after last call.  In less metaphorical words, randomly with no discernible rationality to them.

That's my question then for today.  Is it possible for a person to become too lost in one idea or thought that even it starts to suffer in it's isolation?  And does anyone have any tips on how to write more productively?