NaNoWriMo Defibrillator
Alan, the protagonist for my novel A Rain of Dust, is modeled on Arkady Renko from Martin Cruz Smith’s awesome Gorky Park books. I was stuck hard on the writing, until I let Alan call Major Pribluda, one of the characters from Gorky Park for a bracing picker-upper. It worked–there’s a sprint in this phone call which eluded me in RL, and I went on to add another thousand words in the hour after I wrote this:
He looked at the progress bar in its agonizing crawl across the screen, and realized that all this database work was just slowing dow the novel. Fuck this too.
On the drive back north he used the hands-free for his cell phone.
“Misha, pick up the phone if you’re in. I … Continue reading