Okay everybody, so I went through a bit of a personal funk this past month, and now that I’ve been able to work through most of the crap, I can now, with confidence, provide an update on the novel. YAY!!!!!!!!!!!
After realizing a couple of weeks ago that I had made a stupid rookie mistake regarding my character names, I had decided to give the lead heroine a new name. Let’s face it, “Nate and Natalie” just won’t work well for my two leads. So, after much debate, as well as a poll on Google+, I have given Natalie a new moniker. I’d like to re-introduce my noble heroine, Miss Evelyn Gray. Her close friends call her Eve for short and will prove to be a strong character in the story. Some of you might be sitting there thinking that Eve is a stupid name, or that it sits a little on the “not a popular name” side of the spectrum. Well, here are my reasons for Evelyn. First off, it’s a beautiful, yet simple name, which reflects both the character’s inner beauty as well as her outward appearance. Also, I found that there’s a bit of irony in her name itself, with the biblical allusion to the Creation story completely contradicting the apocalyptic end of humanity within the main storyline. I would love to say that this irony was intentionally contrived on my part, but the truth is, I just like how it sounded.
In addition to a new character name, I have also recently finished writing a pretty intense action sequence, which now folds in the remaining human survivor characters in one big lump! Now things are going to get interesting as we get to know these new additions as they struggle to live on as their world literally crashes down around them. Meanwhile, our hero Nathan has managed to escape the military’s quarantine of downtown Pittsburgh with his friend Ronnie and now continues his quest to re-unite with Eve. Pittsburgh, as well as the vast majority of the civilized world, burns and is quickly becoming uninhabitable as military forces do everything they can to prevent the undead from completely overrunning the city.
The novel is currently about 1/3 of the way finished. I’m getting increasingly excited the farther I get into it! I can’t wait for you all to read it!!!
I know that it’s been a while since I’ve posted a progress report on the manuscript. I’m happy to report that production is going extremely well. I have recently broken the 50K word milestone and currently have a total word count of 52,398!
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After sustaining a fairly lengthy writing drought as I worked hard to re-design my website and create the cover art for the novel, I’m now back to pouring my effort into the manuscript. Last night was my most productive night of writing yet; I was able to smash out 2,700 words and complete a nice sized suspense/action scene!