Too damn long

I told myself I wouldn't go this long without updating the journal, but then I did. I'm a bad, bad man. :/

In my own defense, I've lost faith in Blogspot's ability to properly log my posts. The last time I tried, I spent some forty-five minutes of my life writing a post, and when I went to publish, it didn't show up, nor did it show up in my Drafts, though they supposedly "autosave" every few minutes. That post is gone, and so are those lost minutes. :(


In any case, a progress report is long overdue.

I've reached nearly 90K words in Scamper. I think this is more than halfway to the end (though there's still some debate as to just where the end is. 125K? 150? I don't bleeding know), but there's still plenty of work left ahead of me. More so than can be done in a couple of weeks, so I'm pushing the deadline back by one month.

Jan 31st. Plenty of time. (Of course, I said the same of December 31st, but that's neither here nor there).

The story's beginning to gain some definition. This is good news; previously, the whole thing was just a nebulous construct in my mind, lacking any real definition as to where it would begin and end, the major events, the climax, and so on. I'd write a scene or a chapter without any real idea of where to put it, but now, the ideas are forming. Like I said, it's still a long road to travel, but at least I have some idea of where it's going to end.


--Cris