Howdy folks, it’s about 4:20am here in the UK and I’ve just got to work. I am very tired this morning as I’ve had very little sleep, and kinda can’t wait to get started because as soon as I get cracking my body and mind will kick in and the tiredness will seep away somewhat.

Yesterday I ended the day with about 1400 words as I bring the story into its final third. At the moment I’m a little over 40k which feels really skinny for this first draft but if previous works are anything to go by I’ll end up added a lot of content during the second draft. I’m beginning to think of my first drafts as a very detailed outline.

I watched the Two Towers last night. I kind of feel like this is my favourite film of the trilogy, but it’s a close race with Return Of The King. I think I like the second one as it shows the birth of the industrial complex in Middle Earth, and some of the horrors of war. Tolkien fought in the trenches in the First World War and you can see the influence that had on him I think.

It’ll be into Return Of The King tonight.

Writing wise for today I think I‘d like to get about 500 words written. I’m not going to go too hard today but I do want to continue that writing every day roll I’m on.

I need to get better at making notes for other projects that are popping up at the moment. War Child, Black Blood, and a story with the working title of Lovers, have all been speaking to me lately, I’ve made some extensive notes about War Child, but I need to start jotting down the ideas I’m having for the other two. I’m also now wondering why I haven’t brought the respective notebooks for those stories with me today.

Wow, okay this blog post got a bit longer than I was expecting. So I’m gonna wrap it here and think about getting the day job rolling.

I hope you all have an awesome day!