I added a little over 7k to The Shadow of Vale this week bringing the word count nearly to 35k.
The amount of the previous draft I am transferring over is really surprising and quite exciting. While I have made significant changes to some of the plot lines and characters, there is still so much that I am finding just works with minimal changes. I think changing some of the context is making some of the scenes work better than I thought they did originally.
Despite getting really sidetracked by another WIP this morning, I did get my 1k in today to round out a solid week of writing.
I also did a fair bit of work on some out of sequence scenes that got stuck in my head. That might have been another 1200 words or so, but they won’t actually count until I get to fold them into the draft. 😉
So much was transfer, it was actually kind hard to pick a snippet, but here we are:
“What’s that?”
“A dummy sword.” He pushed it closer to Aaron who took it reluctantly.
“Shouldn’t I be training with a real sword?”
Cyrus rolled his eyes and drew his sword again. He turned and offered the hilt to Aaron while taking the dummy sword back.
With a grin, Aaron took hold of the sword, the tip of which immediately dropped into the dirt when Cyrus released the blade. “Oh! It’s heavy.”
Cyrus sighed and ran his hand over his face. “This is going to be a long day.”
