January 28th, 2010 by Neal

A powerful motivator.

I felt bad for taking yesterday to build, and the fact that I’m cutting out early for a RPG this weekend, so I put in a 4,000 word day.

I can already tell that this will be easily the longest Hal so far, and it might just exceed my 110,000 word goal. Most of the reason for this is that it’s not a causal mystery, where a series of events leads to the solution directly, but rather something I’ve patterned more in the Block style. One thing Block is very good at doing is having the character do his thing, with all of the pieces, and pick up one little bit here and there, with a lot of malarky to throw you off, stuff that seems like it might mean something but ultimately doesn’t. It’s a subtlety I’m trying to learn and improve on.

Now I gotta go get that ink I meant to get before it rained two days ago, and eat. Yeah. Eating is good. Necessary.