e-Zombie:

Done, and at Amazon (along with my first book The Underground which is also now at Amazon.)

The book is done. Well the first draft, so I need to switch my brain from create mode to rewrite mode; hitting mode switch... now.

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Brain work good for rewrite now. droooooooooooooooool
Gwaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh.
Do good works, brain make rewrites now.

Well, I made it past the last chapter; and it was a good wait to find the story. However, now the next chapter is going to be a lot different than my outline suggested. I like that. I believe if the characters do something that change my planned story, or the outline I set out before writing; then I'm doing something right.

I'm not sure what it means, but there are times, like the moment where there's something in me telling me that I'm missing something, or not 'in the moment' of the story I'm writing. I know where the story is going in the next five minutes, but I know there's something I'm missing in the current moment of the characters. It's kind of hard to explain, so I thought I would, here.

I don't know if it's in my head or the story is telling me something I haven't quite figured out, but it happens all the time and is the number one reason that it takes me so long to write. I just need to make sure I don't put in some crappy filler to stretch out the story thinking that it was needed. I'd rather just skip it and move on to the next five minutes than ad some crappy filler to my story and characters.

I know it's not all in my head, because a lot of the best things I've written (imho) have been figuring out what I'm missing in these spots.

After writing solid for almost two weeks, the last two days have been slow. It feels good to write something and who knows, maybe it will help me continue writing in my current book.

Yah... Boches... about half way point and I'm writing more in a day than i did in 2 weeks at the start of the book.

Hoping to be done by July 1 14, that is a timeline that is part of the reason I'm going faster (forcing mehself to write more.)

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then the rewrites(s)((s))(((etc...)))

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I just passed the arbitrary amount of words in my current book of 20,000. This means, by some useless standards my book has went from a short story to a novella. These useless and arbitrary numbers mean nothing, and shouldn't in writing; especially to the characters and story arcs. 

which means: (?)

A: True 

B: BS!!!, I feel AWESOME to make it to a novella :P ... So far. I made 20k, HA! I made 20k, HO!

C: #HumbleBrag

D:  Anything for a distraction :: yay for procrastination 

E:  All the above, especially D.

(Hint: I wrote the outline to this post before I had 10k words.)

So I'm sitting here writing in my new novel, and I realize the way I'm doing it is just about as different as could be with my last novel, The Underground. A long time ago I remember wondering, or asking myself - what's the best way to write a book? Apparently whatever works at that time; it really doesn't matter. Getting the story out, jotting something down, making the story real by writing it down is all that mattered... I think.

I do this for my animations, music, video game ideas, or anything I want to make, learn, or build; and I think the answer is the same for anything, make it real by doing it. Be it badly, wrongly, or who knows, maybe the right way, my way.

Not sure about this post, but I had to note how differently writing this book is different from the last one.