Well, must have been feeling real good today. Wrote and finished the first draft of Chapter 7 all in one day, just over 6,000 words. Of course, it had the protagonist from Chapter 1, so it went rather well. He’s a good character that just has a little trouble with life at the present time. Though, he’s young right now and has a long way to adulthood. Can you imagine being 12, while actually being 173 years-old? This guy has 257 years to live until he’ll be 18 and an adult. My only problem with him right now is that I can’t really see anything happening to him until he is 18. Of course, there will be some minor events in his life, but I don’t think they’ll add up to a full chapter.

Now, I have to come up with what to do in Chapter 8. Do I go back to the earlier chapters and pick up one of those protagonists, or do I create a whole new character and story line? Either option is a possibility, but I really think I need a new one. There is the protagonist from Chapter 6 I could use, but it’s a little early for him. I think he’ll have to wait for a few more chapters. There is also the time issue. The first six chapters occurred in the same timeframe, while Chapter 7 jumps 33 years into the future. Chapter 6’s protagonist has a major event coming up, but that won’t occur for at least another 100 years or so. The protagonists from Chapter 3 have a major event coming up and that might fit in with the 33 year timeframe, but I think it’ll be much later. Right now, I just don’t quite know how all of this is going to work out.

Of course, the more I think about it, the more I’m inclined to come up with a new character who might just fit into the 33 year present. But, then you have to come up with a life and a series of one or more antagonists affecting that protagonist in his or her future. There is the default antagonist in the whole book, but sometimes I just want to have something special. Oh well, I’m sure I’ll come up with something. I could always use the good gay/bad jock thing, but that’s kind of stale right now. Besides, I’ve got something similar to that coming up for one or more of the other characters. I just need to think about all of this.

On the home front, nothing much happening, which is good; though we did have a horrific wind and rain storm up here a couple days ago. Other than a few dropped branches and the flooding creek, nothing happened right where we live. We didn’t even lose our power, which is good. The puppy is having a bit of intestinal distress, but heck, he’s a dog. Dogs pick up the damnedest crap, put it in their mouths, and then swallow it. Sometimes it’s the same crap as the time before. If he wasn’t so smart, you’d think he was dumb as a lab. Look in his eyes and you can almost see the gears turning, look into a lab’s eyes and all you get is the silly dog staring back at you. No, not to say that labs aren’t totally stupid, there was one on the tube the other night that has been trained to smell electronics, like hard drives and flash drives. The state internet child porn bureau looks forward to using him.