The Sweet Heart Catalyst progress bar is still moving, however slowly. My new “write everything out of order, in small chunks, and in response to random prompts” approach makes me feel like I’m moving at a glacial pace and in a disorganized fashion–but on the plus side, it feels like almost everything I write, comes out as an intense, pivotal scene. It’s like I get to write all of the sweet parts (haha!), while skipping (1) the boring stuff and (2) the parts where I have no idea what happens, LOL. I just write the chunks I feel like writing, and then add them to my master file in chronological order, with titles like “Scene where Thing A happens”. In between, I have notes in all caps, like “ADD THE SCENE WHERE CHARACTER B DOES THING C”. It’s going to be a really weird first draft when it’s done, but I’m not going to worry about that right now.
On a side note: while driving to work this morning, it occurred to me that my character’s coworkers nickname him “Spooky” (because it sorta fits him, and it’s a play on his last name, Spinney). I’m also toying with the idea that even though this is a technologically advanced society, many people are very superstitious, and they really do believe that people like him are “touched by the gods”, and not necessarily in a good way. His coworkers also (initially) think that he can do stuff like (1) getting “impressions” off of physical objects (such as a knife that might be a murder weapon) or locations, and (2) being able to “see” the winning lottery numbers. So he has to disabuse them of these beliefs, and reiterate that his ability only works on people. Living, breathing, thinking people.
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Oh, and one more thing: I also have progress to report on Wallwalker, which I’ve been working on as a side-project, for whenever I get stuck or need a break from SHC. Yep, I’m doing it, I’m writing a short story!
