A new direction

I've totally changed Dream On, including the title. The working title is Penalty Shot.  The POV has changed from Cassidy (boring) to Joel, and instead of being linear, I've tried to make each chapter not that way. Each chapter is titled with a song, and it would be so awesome if I could have s soundtrack playing while the book is being read. 

Music highly influences my writing, no where as much as with this particular story. It started with a song, "See You" by Depeche Mode and morphed into its current life a after many years. 

I remain hopeful that the end is near. 

NaNoWriMo Day 2

It's not going too bad. I'm still rewriting what I already have, which is what I did last year, too. Only difference, last year I had done a lot more prewriting--character sketches, scenes, etc, so I knew exactly where I wanted the story to go. This year I just wasn't into it. For some reason Halloween preparations took up a lot of my time.  I do know where I want the story to go, what I want to happen to the characters--sort of. Hopefully I'll get to 50k by the end of November.

So far today I've written 1812 words for a total of 3507, with 46,493 words to go. Always nice to know that!

Here's the opening paragraph, which may be familiar to some:

The head explodes like an overripe cantaloupe, rotten brains and clotted blood spraying across the side of the sagging porch. A horrible stench permeates the air, thick like fog. The zombie killer calmly reloads the rifle, takes aim and fires again, just to be sure. Sometimes it takes more than one bullet.

Yes, it's zombie/end of the world/survivor stuff.  Ought to fit right in with all the other books out there, yeah?

Smile

Today I thought of an idea for a story that made me smile. I'm sure it was an evil smile, because it's not a nice story. It's one I've been kicking around for at least a year, after seeing a documentary on parasitic twins. Yeah, I know. Gross. But so very wicked and full of potential!

So....I'm hoping to work on it tonight. I've been thinking about it a lot all day, which is usually a good sign. (i.e. finished story possibly)

Anyway---here's to writing again!