Litany of Errors

There is a bit of pregaming necessary to having any hope of cranking out a novel in thirty days. I for one, would like to get the protagonists and secondary characters outlined, along with the plot and some of the history leading up to the events of the novel. Pounding out 2,000 words each day is a whole lot easier, when I know what I want to get across ahead of time.

I'm also trying to kill off the book I'm currently reading, A Tale of Two Subs, so that I don't have to set it aside for thirty days and entirely lose the plot. Up until the last couple of days, I had been doing pretty well at grinding through that. No small part of that is due to the positively immense amounts of downtime I have at work, allowing me plenty of time to read (and later write). Naturally, as I realize today that expediency is the best course, we've begun having networking issues between our automation and database, slowing the day's work to a crawl.

Really, I'm worrying over nothing. Even with the added time spent babying machines, I should still finish the book up on my Saturday shift, as planned, and have a solid week for outlining. I'm just suffering from a bit too much excitement, I suppose. I hope.

Of course, there's little progress to report on the novel itself. I have one character named (though with very few other details to go with him), and I'm gravitating toward Consent of the Governed as the title. Popular Rule feels a bit too literal, and Spheres of Influence just doesn't quite fit the story. Though I'm trying to choose a good title ahead of time, I pretty firmly believe that whatever I do wind up choosing will last until about November 28th, and over the following two days, I'll change it hourly.

More to come next week, as I start to nail down some details.