Extending NaNo 2013: May 28

Writing since the end of November continues to be sporadic, but in today's lunch writing session, I hit another small milestone. Two months after my last "extending NaNo" post (which itself was four months after the end of NaNoWriMo), I've added another 10,000 words to my 2013 draft. I'm at 73,856 words. A lot has happened in the last 10,000 words, and the story is heading for ...

...well...

I'm not sure what. 

That's the problem I'm facing right now - I have an idea of how the current scenes are going to resolve, but it leads to a fairly wide open set of possibilities beyond that. At this point, I'd like to finish the writing I'm doing on the scenes going now, and then take some time to figure out an outline of the next part. It might end up being the outline for book three, or it might be a continuation of the story that's going now. I don't know. 

Redshirts - reading

Finished "Redshirts" by John Scalzi. This is the first book from Scalzi I've read. I went in knowing about Redshirts from Star Trek, and at the beginning, I had two possibilities in mind for how he might handle it. On the one hand, the Redshirts could behave like Redshirts in their own reality and deal with it in a way that is appropriate to a character. I think I would have liked that version more. On the other hand, they could have been written in a more meta way, the way Scalzi wrote them, which I felt was perhaps not as creative or engaging. Then throw in the codas at the end, and the fact that my exposure to Scalzi's writing comes primarily from his blog, and I came away thinking the book was on the lazy side, writing-wise. Yes, I'm aware that Scalzi has far more books written and published and loved than I do. But here we are anyway.