2005 Recap

Wow, it's been a long time since the last comment. Drunkard's Leap made it to 30,169 words, and not very far through the storyline. How come? YT claims, first of all, to have horrible amounts of work piled on him, leaving too little creative "juice" to squeeze out at the end of the day. Really.

In the ten months since, the work situation hasn't gotten any easier. Stress is a part of the corporate culture now, big time. That's a topic for a whole other post.

But what else? NaNoWriMo has taught YT that a number of things have to come together for the novel to gel. Primarily, the characters have to stand up on their own two feet. Lena and her cohort could walk (avoiding real plot development!) and Jump, but they never spoke for themselves. Ah, well, the idea is still a good one, but it's time to move on. Someday, Lena, someday you'll take your big leap...