NaNoWriMo Day #15

Halfway through the month and halfway through my projected word count. Stalled out yesterday though. Wrote 3k words, then killed a thousand. It was weak. It still is weak. Normally, I would push on through and fix it in the edit (which is a practice most people recommend for NaNoWriMo), but it was twisting the tale in a direction where it would fail. I am taking the day off to read a book about Xenomorphs (Alien: Out of the Shadows by Tim Lebbon). I'm loving the feel and what he's done with the characters within this book, but I don't like the Ripley factor. Ripley is a great character and he writes her well. The problem is that things in this book (set between Alien and Aliens) make many of her comments and attitudes in Aliens ridiculous. Am hoping that this book doesn't end with her getting amnesia. In my opinion, if you want to deal with a character and write a story set between two existing works (books, comics, movies, or whatever), do not contradict the existing works. Anyway, we'll see how it goes. I'll post a review when I am done. Tomorrow? More "The Symbol and the Black Hammer"! Am confident I will finish this year.

Note: Last year's book "A Carpenter's Faith" is available as an eBook on Amazon and will be reaching other eBook retailers over the next few days.