Hey Readers,
I know the past couple of days have found us post free, but today I have found a little time and will catch you up on the work I did yesterday.
The major thing that got done was some story boarding. The story board is now finished out to the end. The book has come out to around 21 chapters, and is going to be at my best guess somewhere between 225 and 250 pages. After finishing the story board there are couple of changes that will need to be made to the first completed 10 chapters in the book.
First of all is the method I am using to give some charachter depth to some of the “bad guys”. Other than the main two guys we didn’t know anything about our badies except their first and last name, a little about what their expertiese was, and that they get killed in some dramatic fashion by our hero. I have taken a new sort of approach of giving the bad guys depth. I am using a stream of consciousness of the one who is involved at the confrontation at the time, and writing an entire chapter from his perspective. This gives him the opportunity to “reflect back” as events unfold. This gives the reader not only a better understanding of this particular character, but of the relationship between this bad guy and the others and the relationship of the bad guy group as a whole.
The other small accomplishment I made yesterday was to write a couple of paragraphs on chapter 13. The hope is that by next Friday the book will be rough drafted chapters 1 through 13, with 8 more left to go. Its hard to believe, but the end is almost insight. I know how the book is going to end now and I have a pretty good idea of the journey the characters our going to take on the road to that end. It doesn’t seem like all that long ago that this was just a mental concept, and now my first attempt at a book (whether for better or worse) will soon be done! I hope only for the best, and until next time………..
L.D. Holtner
