Amelia update finally!

Sat down and worked on the two "open" scenes I have going in Amelia (chapter 1 in the suite and chapter X their 'first time'). Wrote about 580 words altogether (not bad after a nine day absence). I think there's another 500-1000 words left to write for the 'first time' and that will probably close out that chapter (which i admittedly have not written the first half of, obviously). I'll need to consult my notes.

Boils down to what I said on twitter 'Breaking my writeresblock by writing the sex scenes.' >.> I say sex but it's really just going to be a tasteful R.

I had a moment today when I was working when I realized that despite this being fairly genre (firmly on the action end of Chick Lit, think Helen Fielding's Olivia Joules) I'm not actually sure what kind of market is out there for Gay Chick Lit? It's not as though I'm trying to make a statement with the character, I just wrote these characters down and there was insta-chemestry between her and Detective Kelly. She's a 2/3 on the Kinsey Scale I think, there's really nothing else to it, it just is.

I have more thinkey thoughts to say about this (probably, if I sat down to compose them) but now I'm late for play rehearsal. Will try to write more this evening, make it an even 1k writing day hopefully.

Proof of work

Proof that I worked on Amelia. No words written but more extensive plotting worked out than I had before and put down in a flexible manner so that I can add to it as more comes to me. I primarily focused on how the primary Amelia/Kelly relationship can develop amongst the events of the HD-recovery and Det. Donnelly's investigating the Tong.

I have a couple hours until play rehearsal tonight and I know I should try to write 500-1000 words before that. I keep getting distracted with various social networking sites though. I spent quite a bit of time messing with my phone trying to figure out the most efficient way of uploading the photo you see here to the web without my computer cable. And then another extensive amount of time spent trying to decide whether or not to link this blog directly with my Twitter feed (ultimately chose not to at the moment since my twitter features slightly worse language than this and is only tangentially related to this blog's topic. )

Here's a quick current word count for Amelia after having started work on a later sequence scene this afternoon (attempting to forcibly break thru my writers block by skipping ahead lol)

2599 / 80000 words. 3% done!

May or may not write the sex scene immediately following where i paused just now. It has a definitely nice 'fade to black' but a big part of this story idea revolves around its place in the racier chick lit genre so we'll see.

Woops?

So I ran out of steam. I don't think I've effectively written anything on Amelia in about a week. I read thru the 1800 words I had yesterday and made a few corrections and now I'm sitting here sipping my coffee and thinking Damnit Kellianne, what happens next??

I have the whole general plot written up, that's never been a problem with my writing process. The hard part is figuring out the details. The tiny things that happen in between the big events.

I was hopeful that I would be able to give a good showing for Camp Nanowrimo but that is definitely NOT going to happen now. I only have 2 weeks left and I know there's no way I'll manage to write 48K in that period of time. Perhaps I can give myself a slightly smaller goal, however, say 23K more and finish with 25K give or take? Thats a little under 1/3 of the total length I need for this story but I think it works out to 1.6K a day word count. Hard but if I refuse to let myself be a lazy sod doable right? And that's the whole part of my participation in Camp in the first place, to set myself a goal and get into a habit.

Here's an excerpt from How Amelia etc Retired With all the Money:

Story Ideas

So I was railroaded this afternoon by a story idea just begging to be written. I've only scribbled out the outline and working title thus far but after some nosh, a beer and the new episode of Wilfred tonight I plan to tuck in and do a bit of writing.

For now I'll leave you with the title and brief summary, thoughts welcome:

How Amelia Beasley Victoria Anne Commons Retired with all the Money - the story of how former mobster Amelia Commons discharged her debt to Interpol & MI6, learned to surf, fell a little bit love and retired on Waikiki Beach with Sir Francis Bellmoore's fortune.