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So far so good.

Yesterday's word count: 1763

I've decided on a working title for the book. Until something else makes more sense, I'm calling it House Foraysa. My main character is a mercenary who happens to be the unwanted tenth daughter of a sixth son in the House Foraysa. Her little "quest", if you will, involves a family matter that will send her into peril. Of course, since I'm writing without a net here, I have absolutely no idea what the family emergency is or what kind of peril she's going to end up facing. Since I tend to write organically, I trust these things will just magically make themselves known as I write in the scenes.

I have been using a few pictures I've stumbled across online for inspiration.

This is Ashyss Foraysa of the House Foraysa.

This is a fellow mercenary and Ashyss's lover, Legas.

This is Ashyss's distant cousin who she will have to work with in order to pull off her "quest". Her name is Seiene.

I have no idea who (or possibly what) the antagonist looks like. I don't even have a name for him (or her) yet. I also have no idea what they have or want that is going to interfere with Ashyss's needs. But I'm confident I'll think of something.

And on that note, I'm off to write another 1700.
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  1. Matt S1:39 PM

    nice! I never thought about using DA for character inspiration before. I used to surf the stock art when I was still making time to (try to learn to) draw regularly, but never for prose purposes. I'll need to keep that in mind next time I get stuck.

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  2. Sarah Ski9:12 PM

    Rah rah! Word count, wooooo!

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  3. Jeffrey Hite9:20 AM

    That sounds great. I would love to read it some time. Of course that would have to be some time next month. I am not doing so well on my word count. For the whole weekend I am only at 1345! Boooo! I will get there. :) Good luck!

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  4. Krista Heiser9:25 AM

    Hey, 1345 is a good start! As a writer you know some days the words flow, some days they don't. As long as you keep opening the WIP, you're likely to increase that word count.

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  5. Joely Sue Burkhart9:22 AM

    Great work, Krista! I know you'll figure out the pieces you need as you're writing. That's half the fun!

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