We're all at different places in our books. I'm curious to see what you're writing about when you hit a certain word count. For example:
- Just hit 26,130 and my main character is stalling because she's nervous about her wedding night (and I'm nervous about making this scene realistic...but not too detailed for Christian readers.) Anyhow, she's just struck up a conversation with her introvert husband and she touches a sensitive point that upsets him.
How about you? I thought this would be a good way for us fellow believers to keep up with what everyone is doing.
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38,529 / 50,000
Nov 6, 2009 - 16 20
I'm not writing in a linear fashion. My novel is growing (as I call it) organically. I pick up wherever my fancy strikes me, and fill in the pieces of the puzzle as I go along, with a vague, hazy notion of how the final "big picture" will look.
At this point, the angel Malachi is watching over a young human infant; having a stand-off with Enoch, a fallen angel and once Malachi's dear friend; and pondering the nature of original sin -- not from a theological perspective, but from a psychological point of view.
Malachi has realized the real tragedy of the human soul -- the loss of a primal oneness with mother and with life, and ultimately harmony with God and fellow man. Malachi comes to the conclusion that this brokenness, this division, is what sin and evil are really all about.
I realize this isn't necessarily orthodox theology, but it's where my main character's reflections have taken me.
Paul aka NovelNo4
2005: Shielded in My Armor (completed) / 2009: In Splendor Before His Face (just shy of 10,000 words on Day 6)