the second two hours

I've reached my quota for the day, and I'm only four hours into the month :) And I took an hour off for blogging and checking webcomics and stuff. And I still I have more to write. Granted, it is 4 a.m., and I should be going to bed, especially since my fingers seem to be going much slower than my brain at this point.... But I did sleep a lot yesterday....

Writing a novel seems to be a lot like reading a book where you already know the ending. Especially if you start getting to know a writer well, you know generally how things will turn out. But you read the book anyway, because you want to know how it gets from the first scene to the last, even if you can almost predict what the character will do and say. Writing this book, I know what's going to happen. I know the backstory behind the backstory and what twists will happen when. The characters have still managed to surprise me, though. I always thought that was something authors said because it sounded like a good thing to say, but apparently, it's true.

There are very few novelists who can hook me from page one. I am not one of them, yet. Maybe someday I will be, but for now, it takes me four or five pages :)