Next little installment of Adam’s name is up! It’s here!

Word count graphics are fixed! They’re here!

In the middle of my pseudo-quarantine due to excessive coughing and throat that’s hanging in ribbons, I bring you the Weekly Word Count! I’m continuing to make little tweaks to the web site as I update and add bits that I’ve written.

Any comments and constructive criticism are always welcome. :) Also, I’m thinking of re-writing the first five or so chapters of The Remembrance, to make it a bit more palatable to potential agents and publishers. I worry, though, about losing the freedom that I have publishing through Lulu. I feel like I’m riding the front wave of a change in how information is purchased and disseminated. I have control, and I own the rights. And yet, if you want to buy my book from Borders, you’re going to run into problems, because my distribution house is owned by Barnes & Noble.

So, I dunno. Again, any input is appreciated.

Adam’s Name

Lo and behold, the next installment of Adam’s Name is up on my short fiction page. From the site:

“Adam loses himself in blue eyes and lace-covered skin as he flees the strangeness that continues to pierce holes in his reality. He runs to the Goth/Industrial club a few floors above the last bar, and ends up on the roof of a parking garage. Alcohol, making out, a gun shot, and a bonfire under the constellation Orion.”

I’ve also started a thread in the Google group to discuss the strangeness that Adam keeps running into. Feel free to share theories, observations, complaints, offers of gold doubloons, whatever. :)

Also, though I haven’t been a part of it, the activity in the has remained steady. I highly recommend it.

I haven’t forgotten your suggestions about what to write, from that post oh-so-long-ago. Nor the meme where I owe four more people pieces of fiction. I’ll get on track one of these days. :)

This small part of Adam’s name is taking me forever to edit. I’m adding a few pages to it, just about doubling its length, because it needs more. ( Thanks ) I’ve got a decent start on it, but I feel stuck. Should I bring the girl in early, or should they run into each other on the dance floor? Should there be more foreshadowing about the story that Adam is getting involved in? Or should there just be more about how he feels apart from everything?

This is the first encounter that has Adam really and truly just observing someone else’s story. He’s slipped into another fictional world, one in which a girl gets initiated into a sisterhood of witches. Adam will only witness a very small slice of the story, but it will be enough to send him on his way. Since Adam’s telling the story, putting more emphasis on his separation from the world around him makes the story uninteresting… why should the reader care? And Adam certainly loses himself in this girl as he tries to escape into the drunk game again… maybe he shouldn’t be so okay with leaving at the end.

I might just need to fill the space with words and see what comes out. :)