2015 Flash Fiction Word
Count = 38159
2015 CampNaNo Word
Count = 5932
2015 TOTAL WORD
COUNT = 44091
So, I’m a week into this year’s CampNaNo, and things are
going well. Chris and Mike’s first adventure, CHRIS AND MIKE vs THE RISING DEAD, is coming along nicely. Here’s
how:
Day Two – 799 words
Another
lunch time session saw me start work on the first chapter to contain one of our
heroes. Entitled “What’s On Your Mind”,
we get a look at a Chris who is still a resident of the mental institute. Here
he undergoes a session with his psychiatrist, Dr Gellibrand.
The
chapter shows a playful side to Chris, one that comes across through the
original Flash Fiction stories that have inspired this project. My only fear is
that I have a feeling it’s a chapter that won’t make the final draft.
Day Three – 1016 words
Following
Chris’ intro the day before, it was time for Mike to step up. The chapter
delves straight into painting Mikes life the colour of miserable; setting the scene
in his office, meeting his annoying boss, and getting his point of view on the
wife. Once the sad state of Mike’s life is out of the way, we move onto the
phone call that will lead him to the reunion with his old pal.
Day Four – 0 words
There
was a tiny screw up today that led to no words being written. Due to the fact
that my most regular writing time comes with my one hour work lunch, I kind of
got carried away through the day and completely forgot about CampNaNo and ‘Chris
And Mike vs’. It wasn’t until my wife asked around 8pm if I was going to do any
writing that day that I remembered, and by then we were settling down for
Formula One quali. So that’s one day, so far, with zero word count. I don’t
plan on doing it again.
Day Five – 835 words
Sunday
afternoon had me wasting time for a Flash contest story that went nowhere. Frustrated,
I scrapped it and turned to Chris And Mike instead. This chapter has Mike arriving
at the Institute and eventually finding out that his responsibilities have
grown. I had an ending for the chapter in mind, that final realisation by Mike,
and I wanted it to be the punchline to the chapter. The rest of it was building
to the line from nurse Foy saying, “He’s your problem now.”
Day Six – 716 words
Although
not much had happened in the way of action and monsters, I wanted a slowdown
scene with the two characters before the rest of the world set in. I took the
pair to a dinner where Mike tries to get his head around the new situation he’s
found himself in and Chris is oblivious to the disruption he is causing.
I
have had a thought about changing the setting from a diner to the car, on the
ride home but, we’ll have to see.
Day Seven – 1068
This
was the first day I crossed chapters. The bulk of the writing went on a scene
at Mike’s house as his wife reacts to Chris’ sudden appearance by leaving.
There is also the first real sympathy from Mike regarding his old school friend
before the pair finally call it a night and go to sleep.
I
still had fifteen minutes of my lunch break left and an idea popped into my
head about the next chapter, so I opened the scene and set it up ready for my
next writing session.
Day Eight – 681 words
A
day off work ill meant I probably didn’t get as much done as I’d have liked.
And with the regular blog posts to write, Wednesday will always be light on
NaNo word count. However, I did finish the scene I started yesterday.
I’d
been worried that there wasn’t much going on action wise for the first week of
writing, but I didn’t want to throw the main big bad at them just yet; Mike is
still unaware of the world Chris is part of and I didn’t want to rush the
discovery. So I decided to bring a little bit of that world to Mike’s doorstep;
literally. This is where he’ll start to wonder if his friend really is crazy or
if he is crazy himself.
And
that’s it so far. Obviously not a lot of that would make sense, even if you do
read the weekly Flash Fiction adventures of the pair. And, going forward a
little (or a lot) of it could change through the rewrites, once July is over.
But for now that’s how it’s going and I’m enjoying the way the story is
unfolding.
Hopefully
the fans will like the finished product.
See
you in seven.
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