77,000 words

Wow, exciting!! 77,000!

Today , I've done two bits.

Firstly, the bit where Phil, known in the book as Mark, makes his first appearance and the reader is introduced to his character.

Phil is a real tool in the book to talk about creativity, and the creative process with a lot of wisdom. The great thing is that in real life, Phil is great at ranting, so its brilliant to translate that into making points that I want to make about the creative process.

Two of my characters are pretty close to each other, and my thoughts have been changing on their roles as I've gone through so far.

These are Phil, and Kieran White - based on my old music teacher - he doesn't know he's in the book yet!!!

Initially, I thought of having them separate, and having the Kieran character as the creative character.

However, now, it is more Phil as the creative character, and Kieran as a recurring backdrop to the story, and only appearing for brief moments.. (he plays piano in the streets of york. i think its a great idea to have him in between the monologues as my character is moving from one place to another -- ie little chats with him that break up the monologue)

In this sense, it means that both Phil and Kieran should be characters protraying wisdom, but I must be careful not to overlap their domains.

I've also worked on a second bit today, building up to romance.

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"So my philosophy," he stated proudly, "is don't spend all your time thinking about things... thinking about.. ooh what if I did that... or ooh what if i try this.."

His arms were getting very animated now.

"Just use your creative time to actually DO things. Not only is it way more productive, it's the best way of learning what does and doesn't work, and generating better ideas in the future!!"