I’m going to start with A’s talk tonight instead of writing talk 😛 Just to mix things up.
We won today! That’s actually not the fun part in and of itself. We’ve been winning a lot lately. But, tonight was fun because we’ve now taken the first two games of a three-game series against Seattle, which we recently passed to take possession of the second wild card slot. They were only 1 1/2 games behind us before this series, and now that we’ve won the first two games, they’re 3 1/2 games behind us. HUGE.
AND, we’re only 1 game back of the Houston Astros for first place. That was *inconceivable* just two months ago.
Hopefully we win again tomorrow and complete the sweep. We have one of our…more unpredictable pitchers throwing, so it’ll be a nail-biter for me.
Writing was awesome. Well, the word count today was awesome. There was some early angst in regards the scenes I was writing. But, I got past them and onto scenes that I know are working. So fun. Many good ideas.
I’ve burned through 8,000 words in the past two days. I’ll take a bit of a break tomorrow, and then burn through another 8,000 words by the end of the week. It’s kind of crazy, getting used to this pace. I’m still wrapping my head around it. That I *can* move faster writing-wise. My writing is even better, I think. I don’t know. We’ll see when I read it.
I know this story still needs work. It’s the characters, mostly. They’re still not spot-on. But, man…today I remembered how off certain characters felt in the first book after that first draft. There were a couple of them that I really struggled with until I finally found them in the rewrite. That’s going to happen in this book. I just have to get there. Keep working. Have faith.
Just keep writing.
Night, y’all.