villain month: participants!
Welcome to Villain Month!
For the next thirty days, participants will be building up villains in whatever manner they see fit! Egors, overlords, serial killers, smothering mothers, mad scientists, gladiators, thugs, temptresses, poisoners, ambitious politicians, assassins, manipulative children, bullies; pick anything that appeals, and develop a villain!
The current participants:
Eliza Wyatt
Saint Know-All
MJ Cohen
Agarithia
Karma Girl
Seanchaí
Aolo
Sam
Poirotskull
Nilah
Aldersgatecycle
Dory
Shadow-of-ice
Nymeria
Evildex
Rachel Russell
Ashley
Amber
Olivia
Asustadizo
Bbirdmank
weekly goal and a note
Current Wordcount: 47,669 words
Last Week’s Goal: 45,000 words
Next Week’s Goal: 52,000 words
If I can write an average of 750 words a day, according to my handy little desktop calculator, I should finish this book by the end of July. Next week’s goal puts me at a bit over six hundred words a day. But last week I overshot myself by almost three thousand words. Yeah!
*pauses to dance a happy dance*
This is the last day before Villain Month starts. It’s also two days before my twenty-fourth birthday (June 2nd, for the curious). I’m happy to add people who want to join in partway through the month– just leave a comment. Later tonight I’ll add an announcement post with a list and links of everyone participating.
50%!
As of last night, I reached 47,533 words. 50% of my projected length. Woot!
That said, I had an idea that again deviates from my intended storyline, but sounded very good last night. This morning I remembered the idea, and promptly felt sick. Oh, it works. But it’s dark, even for me.
This has happened before. I lay down to sleep and my mind races. I see dialog, chapter layouts, characters dancing in my head as I lay there, and when I’ve been especially productive it can last for hours. But when I wake, I realize that these 2-a.m. thoughts are always rock-lodged-in-your-gut disturbing or melodramatic.
Anyone else think their judgment is skewed by early hours? Or is it just me?
evil resolution list
176. I will add indelible dye to the moat. It won’t stop anyone from swimming across, but even dim-witted guards should be able to figure out when someone has entered in this fashion.
I’m almost certain that this has been seen by most writers, but on the off-chance someone has not, take a look at the Evil Overlord’s resolution list. It’s a hysterical read. 
the difference: villains and henchmen
Technically, I suppose that these are still antagonists… sortof… A precursor-post to ‘Villain Month’.
Bad guys: you’re doing it wrong…
an invitation to villain month
While I was drawing up some ideas for what I could do for my four weeks of villainy, I thought that perhaps I could invite some of my blogging comrades to join in.
I’ll be spending one week on each character, starting June 1st. Activities will include sample dialog, sketches, scanned collages, and bits of story that don’t go anywhere, as well as the usual ‘character info’ pages that asks for full names and favorite snacks.
Anyone interested? Comment below; I’d love to see other people’s villain-projects.
cover art preview!
This is the very rough sketch of the future cover, commissioned from the wonderful Nykolai. Go see her gallery. (Rough idea for) The back:
In a sunless ice-world where cities are built underground, Vastii is a corrupt, dirty metropolis ripe with gangs, mercenaries, rebellion, and scheming politicians. To suppress an uprising in the west, the king took his own niece, Lady Wyrren Jadis, as a political hostage. Officially, her presence will ensure her father’s loyalty to a king that he never cared for. The king never mentioned that he intends to use Wyrren to accuse her father of murder.
Forced into a strange city with only a few companions, the king’s niece is seen as an easy way to the king’s ear or a weapon against the monarchy. But Lady Wyrren loves freedom more than comfort, and is prepared to do whatever it takes to fight for it.
Anyone think this is noteworthy enough to pick up at a bookstore and flip through a few pages?
1000 hits!
A quick note.
I started this blog mid-March, about two months ago. As of this morning, we’ve reached 1000 hits on this blog! Thank you to everyone who stopped by, for whatever reason! I hope that I’ve been able to share something noteworthy, even if nothing more than snarky comments.
If anyone has a hankering to cover a topic, or something in particular that they’d like to see, just leave me a message. I’d love to find a way to make this more interesting.
Cheers!
Eliza
