So, now that the Galaxy Nexus site with its snazzy 3D viewer has launched, now that I’m on my long lonely but highly productive 9-day Thanksgiving vacation, now … I’m back on track.
I hit 40,068 words in HEX CODE today, 38,524 added this month in Nano. So I’ve got 11,476 words left to go for HEX CODE. Since it’s early in the day and I have two more writing sessions to go, I hope to actually finish that this weekend, or at least by Monday.
Then, unless I’m going gangbusters on HEX CODE, I plan to go back to STRANDED to send to my beta readers, and after that try to finish LIQUID FIRE. Doubt all of that will happen in November, but I want to go from juggling 4 novels in my head to having 4 novels with beta readers!
Oh, I almost forgot … a snippet of HEX CODE:
The three will-o-the-wisps comes together, their colors merging as they swirls around each other into one big ball. The sphere brightens, shimmers, intensifies within its formless shield of mist—the light coming together with a ring and a dark spot, which whirls to face me.
O.M.G. The three will-o-the-wisps have formed together into a giant eye.
“Remember!” the Huntswoman cries. “You can hurt it with your sword, but not enough. It has a shield. You can defend yourself with your shield, but not enough. It has teeth. But it has one more thing, and that is the key. Find that, and you will find your victory.”
“Oh, great,” I says, hefting my dumb little wooden plank blade. “Thanks. Even Yoda sent Luke after dreams before Vader.”
Actually make that 40,092 words … I wrote some more when I went to grab the excerpt. Enjoy.
-the Centaur
