Norman Christof's Blog, page 11

No Doubt

So, what I’m thinking here, is that the Regent has some information about the missing boat captained by Captain Willie, so they need to impress the importance of finding Christa. We also want them to have some sort of information that Christa maybe on board the vessel. Perhaps they were spotted by another ship, or perhaps some video surveillance was looked at after the boat never made it’s appointed stop in New Orleans. Either way, they would suspect that something has happened to Captain...

Together Again

We’ve already covered a few scenes sooner then I thought I would based on this structure, so we’re skipping that last one and going right to this one. We already laid out the demands of the regents back in the first chapter where Chaz had his little encounter with the Regent. I’m thinking perhaps, maybe we will only go with the one Regent at the moment. I know that for a while, I was having multiple regents, but I think for the moment, it makes more sense to have just the one … for the Am...

Morning Pages Entry – April 15, 2014

Well, this is a strange morning. Only two days ago the temperature was around 20+ degrees, it looked like we were firmly entrenched in spring finally, and today, I’m sitting here, watching the snow come down at 6:39am, and there is already at least an inch or two of the fluffy white stuff on the ground. That’s just crazy shit. This winter really doesn’t want to leave us. It’s the middle of April, and there is two inches of snow on the ground. Wow! I’m sure (pretty sure) it won’t last long...

Morning Pages Entry – April 14, 2014

Couldn’t really sleep in this Monday morning. Although, I still got pretty much a full 7 hours sleep anyways. I went to bed at like 10:30, so waking up at 5:15, and getting up around 6am is still pretty much a full 7 hours sleep. I did wake up to many thoughts of worry about the current state of my writing, and lack of income, and possibility of failure with the business. I do often have those concerns when getting up really early, and, I suppose they’re not really anything new. I used to...

Morning Pages – April 13, 2014

So, I do have a plan for moving forward. There is basically more backstory that needs to be written for the novel, before you really start editing. Primarily, so I’m clear on what’s going on, and can make sure that the novel moves forward in a logical manner, and obeys all the rules of the world it’s being written. I’m feeling a bit tired yesterday and today. I’m wondering, if maybe I’m not getting enough carbs in my diet these past few days to keep my energy up. I have backed off on the...

Morning Pages Entry – April 12, 2014

Well, Saturday morning here, and I have to sit back and reflect a bit on what I managed to accomplish this week. Then number one thing, was obviously 25,000 words written for my novel. That’s pretty incredible. That’s basically 100 written pages. Sure, it’s a rough draft, that needs tightening up, and definitely needs more descriptive prose added to it, but still TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND WORDS in five days all done before lunch . . . usually by 12 but a few times at 12:30 or 1pm, is still pre...

All Ashore

So, I’m thinking the basic premise of this scene, will show that Andreas is capable of more than Christa ever was. I’m thinking, that Andreas should be the next big mutation. I’m thinking, that he hasn’t left the ship, even though the captain is dead, and Christa is still there. Leekasha is still there as well, but still under control of the drug. I was thinking that Chaz would turn Leekesha here, but I notice now, that actually happens later in the story, down in the first pinch point. W...

From On High

Alright, well this should be an interesting scene. I need a way to give a little more information about what Kongod is, and how it works, without revealing too much about it I suppose. There are spoilers about to come here, so if your reading this on one of my blogs, and you plan on reading the full book later, then you may want to back away a little from this. Basically what I wanted Kongod to be, was a sort of ruling machine that manipulated and controlled the entire planet. We’ve manag...

Family Heartache

So, where do we go now with the family. Last time we heard like six years ago, Abby and Caius and Shax had all run off to Peru to get away from the freaks running around North America. Chaz was desperately looking for them to gain some sort of closure with the family. The most he found, was her old house and her laptop. The laptop left clues, that there had been another man in her life but it was over. He took the laptop with him, and eventually ended up having a video call with her, wher...

Water And Ash

Arrgh, so here we go, finally at the point where I can write the character Andreas into the script. He was supposed to be the main antagonist to start off the novel, but I got so wrapped up with the beginning of the series In the first book, that I never got around to dealing with this guy. In my original thinking for the story, I was kind of modeling it roughly after Blade Runner and Andreas was sort of like the Roy Batty character played by Rutger Hauer. I think, I still stick to that o...