It’s a weekend, so I didn’t have to worry so much about the end time for my morning writing today and went out for a longer dictation walk than usual. I went out 20 minutes before turning around, walking through the back roads and rice fields once again.
This was my second dictation walk down that path, and I’m starting to feel a little more confident, so I can speak more loudly and smoothly. Of course, two or three dictation experiences is nowhere near “practiced”, but I’m feeling better about it.
Today, I started in on a new opponent character. Unlike the primary opponent I wrote early, this one at least appears in the story, if only briefly. Together with the main opponent, she is going to form the main driving force of the opposition my main character and her friends face through this first book, at least, and most of the series.
I started off with this character as kind of a pawn of the main opponent, but as I told her story, I realized that she has her own motivations for her actions and her own score to settle with the hero as well as with the jester character. She became a little more interesting as I walked.
Today, I got through her moral wound, conflicts, physical and personality descriptions, which was a pretty good output for me for one day. Tomorrow, I have some more of her profile to get through, then I will jump into her interview.
Of course, the downside of walking as long as I did was that when my son woke up earlier than expected, the recording still hadn’t finished transcribing, so I still have that to clean up. . . later today if I can get time, or perhaps tomorrow I will have to tackle that first.