Love Me to the Bone
Draft 1
Words Added: 2,845 (!)
What Happened in the Story: Madeline, our lost MC, stumbles deeper into the skeleton city, Requiem, and meets several new people–some whom she likes, and some whom she DOES NOT. A beneficent lady skeleton saves her from an unwanted flirtatious advance (“sometimes the creep is bone-deep” – Irene), and Madeline eats a hotdog. Doesn’t taste like much, but it smells ah-maz-ing. Irene also informs her of the Dead Letter Office, which Maddie can use to try to reach her boss back in the land of the living. Look, this work stuff is REALLY IMPORTANT, okay?
Additional Notes: So I’m apparently writing this novel BY HAND, now? Look, I have never written anything longer than a few short stories by hand. It’s not my method of choice, typically, because I’m a very fast typer. Usually, that means I can whip through a writing session in no time by typing, whereas writing by hand would take me much longer. But I wrote all 2,800 (!) words in about an hour and fifteen minutes. BY HAND. What the heck is this nonsense? Where did this come from?
I’m baffled, folks. Baffled. I guess the story writes itself the way it wants to be written. Miraculously, my hand hasn’t fallen off yet, so that’s good, right?
Thanks for following along, and I hope you enjoy the ride! I’ll try and make these daily updates (on writing days), but I’ll probably miss a few now and then. Sorry about that in advance, but I’ll do my best to be consistent. If you’re craving some personal stakes in this process, feel free to toss me a “You Can Do It!” donation at my Ko-fi shop! I’m going to need a lot of coffee for this…