Coffee
Sat down to write early today. 3337, words. Not bad. Writing is much easier over a cup of hot coffee.
Lastborn is home with a cold today and I worried that I wouldn't be able to get anything done. But he really is sick and spending most of his time cuddled up in the big blue chair in front of the TV, which has been off since Monday. It was good planning to ground Firstborn on Monday for bad grades. :-) Now the TV is forbidden treasure to be savored, instead of the ho-hum everyday background noise.
Question for other writers out there?
Do you keep a character dictionary of some sort? I'm finding myself having a hard time keeping track of minor character names from day to day. I have to keep going back and reopening a previous chapter to see what I called the grocer or what that English teacher's name was.
Have you ever written a large cast book where the main characters have no last name? I want the main group of girls in this book to have a sort of every-girl feel to them. So, I wanted to call them by their first name only, but I keep having to refer to supporting characters as Xs mother or Xs father. It seems choppy and I refer to all the other adults by their sir names because that was the style in the 60s. It would be OK to refer to the parents as Mr. and Mrs, but seems to take away that every-girl first name thing.
Any thoughts? Am I even making sense?
Lastborn is home with a cold today and I worried that I wouldn't be able to get anything done. But he really is sick and spending most of his time cuddled up in the big blue chair in front of the TV, which has been off since Monday. It was good planning to ground Firstborn on Monday for bad grades. :-) Now the TV is forbidden treasure to be savored, instead of the ho-hum everyday background noise.
Question for other writers out there?
Do you keep a character dictionary of some sort? I'm finding myself having a hard time keeping track of minor character names from day to day. I have to keep going back and reopening a previous chapter to see what I called the grocer or what that English teacher's name was.
Have you ever written a large cast book where the main characters have no last name? I want the main group of girls in this book to have a sort of every-girl feel to them. So, I wanted to call them by their first name only, but I keep having to refer to supporting characters as Xs mother or Xs father. It seems choppy and I refer to all the other adults by their sir names because that was the style in the 60s. It would be OK to refer to the parents as Mr. and Mrs, but seems to take away that every-girl first name thing.
Any thoughts? Am I even making sense?
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