Another morning writing session ends before it should have. Some mornings, the commute to work just isn’t long enough.
Dream Clover
NaNoWriMo 2008
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As the dragon fell to the ground, Shamrock lowed his shield. He lowered is sword arm, resting the tip of the sword’s blade on the grass.
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Wow, what do I say after writing 2,109 words, and that following an earier session of 1,602 words?
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“We’ll start by going to the red continent,” the ten-year-old boy with short blond hair and blue eyes said. “We should be able to pass through to the red planet and locate the red jewel that way.”
“Planets are big,” the seven-year-old boy pointed out. His brown eyes looked up at the reddish afternoon sky, the wind blowing over his curly brown hair. “How can we find one little jewel on an entire planet?”
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These 1,602 words just flowed one after another. This is a transition between arc one and arc two. Arc two is where a lot of the story begins to take place, so it’s only natural for it to start out easy to write.
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“Sister, Sister,” a dark-haired young girl cried out in her peoples’ native language while she pushed the bedroom door open. She carried a lantern to light her path to the curtains. The girl pulled the curtains open across the wide window, letting light into all corners of the large room. The girl hurried next to the side of the spacious bed, setting the lantern on the desk. “Why did you hide under the covers, Sis? I saw something amazing!”
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I’d say I more or less wrote what I was going for with this chapter. At 1,228 words, it barely fails to meet my commute goal, and I’ve missed my daily goal. I expected to have more than this written, so I’ll have to see if I can find the time to write a chapter to transition this arc into the next over the weekend. That should be a good 2,500 words right there, split over one or two chapters.
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Sarah opened her eyes. The light her of desk lamp reflected off of of Samuel’s mirror sitting beside Sarah. She sat up at her desk, and found the green jewel next to the mirror. “Tonight,” Clover’s voice echoed in Sarah’s mind, “you’ll enter the mirror. You’ll see people in trouble. Help the people before Shamrock arrives.”
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This chapter didn’t meet my word count goal, nor did it come out as well as I had hoped.
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As her desk clock turned to 8:00PM, Sarah closed her notebook. Her math work always took the longest to complete. She reached for her vocubulary notebook next, but stopped at the sound of a knock on the door. “Come in!”
