I visited medical establishments three times last week (all for routine stuff), and also went out to celebrate my 31st wedding anniversary. I think if it wasn’t for all that running around I would be “fully recovered” by now. As it is, I managed to make my wordage goal for the week, even though I still haven’t managed to work anything else back into my life yet and my overall activity levels were down from the week before.
But whether I didn’t quite manage to make my wordage goal, or I made it just barely, I have continued to keep the story progressing for all but the one week when I crashed completely. As a result, this week I completed the third quarter of the script for A Lily Besieged. Go me! And because I finished off another quarter, I have started a fresh file, and it feels really wierd to have my word count only showing four figures. Especially since total wordage for the project should hit 200 000 in the next couple weeks.
Every once in a while I consider the possibility of naming the four quarters of A Lily Besieged something other Part 1, Part 2, etc. If it were really going to be made into a tv series there would be no point, and if I were to turn it into a series of graphic novels instead I’d probably want more than four volumes. But with each quarter of the script weighing in at just over 60 000 words, four books really does seem like the most likely way for a novelization to go — adapting it from the script ought to add wordage, but not enough to require splitting the quarters in two. So if this story is ever published in novel form, I will need four titles. If I named the books after the various clans/characters in them, I would have a great excuse to use the clan/rank insignias as cover art. Not that I really need an excuse, but there does need to be some way to figure out which insignias get featured on which book. Hmm. Maybe go a little astrological: The Inception of the Bear, Conjunction of Hawk and Owl, the Moon in Occlusion, Red Eagle Ascendant — people might be disappointed at the lack of astrological references in the text if I go that route though. Maybe… Rouse a Sleeping Bear, Enrage a Hovering Hawk, Guard a Battered Eagle, Catch a Shadowed Tiger? (There is no Tiger insignia in the book. But a cover showing the actual insignia of the person being “caught” in the final volume would be a terrible spoiler — the true identity of the ‘big bad’ isn’t revealed until near the end of the story.)
For Last Week…
Writing: 5278 words
Pedometer: 17438 steps