Consistency

I have an issue with it.  There is no other way to explain it.  I think that I need an active challenge to actually force myself to do something day after day.  Such as a job that gives me a paycheck, or in the case of NaNo, a goal that is in sight.  Even the goals I tend to fall through on.  Though Texas has been pretty good for me on that area, another reason I'm certain I'm meant to be down here.  But this blog is about my writing and not the other issues in my life.  Unless of course they interfere with my writing, but that is another matter entirely.

God I'm rambling.

That might be because I've been up for less than an hour.  I'm going to use that excuse because it sounds better than anything else that I can think of.

So, last night I was writing (novel concept I know, and yes that pun can be counted though it wasn't fully realized at first) and I was having fun.  Fairly disappointed by one of the scenes.  I try to make them about 1,000 words each.  Alright, I should explain this before I get too far into this whole thing and have anyone who comes and actually reads this highly confused.  The latest novel I have been writing, I do an italicized scene with usually no names.  It's short, usually only like two to five hundred words.  Very rarely are there more.  And then I do two scenes which make up a chapter and are thus linked somehow.  Then repeat.  Well the action scenes are the ones that I am talking about.

The one that disappointed me only got out 622 words.  Looking back for the future of editing: I have no idea if I'd be able to make it longer.  It's a really simple and short scene.  I think I milked it for all I could without drawing it out and making it utterly boring and that would be bad for both pace and my sanity.  So, clearly that is not the option.  I must simply accept that it is a sad fail of a scene length though it did give me some fun play with one of the characters that wasn't very developed in the first novel.

But it's being made up for by the scene I'm working on right now.  I finally got back to the main city from the first book and I have to say that I really missed some of the characters there.  Have no idea what in the world that they're going to be doing in this novel considering where I left them in the last one, but I really do love them!