Week Four: Halfway There

Words Written: 14,700+

Chapters Completed: 4 (chapters 12-15)

Coffees drunk: 2

Stress Level: 5

I feel like I say this every week but I truly mean it when I say this week has been a whirlwind! As you can see in my words written stat, I wrote nearly FIFTEEN THOUSAND words!! To put it into perspective: I average roughly 11,000 words a week right now.

On top of writing four more chapters, I also spent a lot of my time filling in details and adding more dialogue between characters. I normally have a hard time revising, but it ended up being a lot of fun and rewarding as the details brought the story to life.

The halfway point in my story brings my heroine to a new perspective as she learns about the people she was forced to join on her journey. She begins to see that the “we protect our own” mentality doesn’t bode well for kingdoms and the world as a whole. She begins to realize that she just might need their help, but she also needs to tell them her plans— which right now are off-limits. As they reach the end of the halfway point of the book, they are forced to work together to get out of their hiding place, alive. Next week I write about their escape and the new people they will meet that might help her with her plans to save the island of Vītor.

This week’s blog is short because I have a lot of work to catch up on since Labor Day weekend (and also feeling under the weather Tuesday).

Enjoy today with a glass of jū-jū [joo-joo] juice and see you next week!

Visit arbledsoe.com for more info and to purchase her short story “Wipple and the Sîren”.

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