The Dead Don't Get No Vacation/Down In That Subway Station

[mmerriam]

I'm taking a break from the novel to eat lunch and post on LJ.

Lucky you.

Progress Report:

Old Blood's Fate

97,520 / 120,000 (81.0%)

22480 words to wrap this puppy up. That sounds about right.

Because I can't help myself, I've been thinking about the novel as I'm cleaning. I mean really, how much of your brain do you really need to mop the floor? And my brain, being what it is, started making lists about things concerning the novel, including the rather high body count.



26: No-name redshirt characters dead
5: Supporting characters dead
4: Characters who should have died, but didn't
4: Instances of fade to black sex
3: Characters hospitalized
3: Ghosts
3: Minor characters dead
3: Named redshirt characters dead
2: Characters as good as dead
2: Homicidal naiads
2: Hunts thorough a mystical woodland
2: Major characters dead
2: Magical Rituals
2: Possessions
1: Assassination
1: Attempt to re-create reality
1: Attempted scrying
1: Car chase up Hennepin Avenue
1: Character left insane
1: Coyote killed
1: Decapitation
1: Gunfight in Lynlake
1: House explosion
1: Instance of Squicky Sex
1: Journey through a character's self-created fantasy world
1: Murder in a corn maze
1: Near death experience
1: Peek into the afterlife
1: Phantom Streetcar
1: Pitched battle involving humans and dark fey
1: Pitched battle involving squirrels
1: Plane crash
1: Riot
1: Summoning of spirits
1: Sword fight
Numerous double dealings, Machiavellian machinations, betrayals, and shifting factions.

And, of course,

1: Writer who realizes he has overreached his talent in attempting to write this book, but is too stubborn stop

In Deep Peace
Michael

Comments

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

the only break they take is to the bone...

Eek, earwormed!

Only one phantom streetcar?

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Sorry about the earworm!

If I had a prize to give away for being the first to identify the song, you'd win it!

The rest of the phantom streetcar line is implied, and may yet get used. In the scene the streetcar is used in, the characters transferred from the phantom streetcar to the modern light rail train. Yeah, that sequence was fun to write.

[polymathematic.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about the novel as I'm cleaning. I mean really, how much of your brain do you really need to mop the floor?

Not much at all. That's the one thing I liked about working at Burger King. I'd go in stumped about some math or programming problem, and after mulling it over while doing mindless work I'd figure out a solution.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Change the name of the fast food establishment to KFC, and the math or programming problems to RPG design, and that's me.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Heee.

I like the list. :D

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

Cleaning is lovely for listening to audiobooks.