klcthebookworm

A whole scene from Unexpected Consequences because I'm totally unsure if the sexy parts are sexy enough? Let me know.

So I ended up working on this story two different days during the week. And I was so disheartened by the progress from the weekend plus the first day, I decided to try out a zero draft on my second working day.

Zero draft is a concept I heard on an old Writer's Well podcast episode. The hosts were talking about cowriting when one parter was good at creating a summary of what is going to happen in the novel and the second partner was good at revising that summary into narrative. So I decided to try it out on my second days of writing Crude Matter, creating a summary in the main text and then go back to make it narrative.

What I found was I hit a spot and fell back to narrative writing. So here's my progress from last week. And this weekend, my plan is to go back to zero draft when the words dry up.

I didn't get as far in my third writing session today, but my next one will get the transition as to how Luke ends up in Mara's shower.

So I'm continuing my experiment to write this story and just this story into Sunday. This post is everything done yesterday and the first writing session I did today. So you can start reading with this post if you want. I hope I can write more than the hour I did yesterday, but my other chores side of the needs doing list is longer.

So Scrivener decided to lock up in "Not Responding" after I started the fifteen minute timer, so all I got done was finding Cilghal's entry in Wook to spell her name correctly.

The other project I'm working on is the first novel up in the Rescue the Farmboy series. It has reached editing status and I'm almost ready to send it off to my beta reader. I was inspired by a comment on one of Tor.com's Star Wars articles that wanted a fanfic in which Luke actually made it to the Imperial Academy and what kind of hell broke loose then. Then I found the title in the observation that Luke is always getting rescued. And the idea kept going until I have to rewrite the original trilogy.

Now I had shared this scene before on Tumblr but as I pulled it out for Dreamwidth, I realized that my edits had changed things. So you're getting the first glimpse of the new material. To set the scene, Luke has already seen the Academy plans end with detainment and a death sentence, but is going with his hunch that Darth Vader won't kill him and offers to give himself up so Biggs can take Princess Leia down to Tatooine to meet old Ben when the Devastator catches up with Tantive IV.