Shiny and exciting progress!

[naomi_jay]

8,391 / 85,000 (9.9%)

Look at the slow creeping forward of my word meter for Wild! Yes, it is shiny, it does excite. I'm making some rather huge changes to the basic plot and it's a frustratingly slow proceedure to chop out massive chunks of writing and fit in new pieces, and then make sure the new pieces mesh with the original. But I'm getting there. Let's look at the evidence:

Chapters revised: Four.
Drugs used (not by me): Heroin, cocain, morphine (for medicinal purposes), cannabis.
Deaths: One.
Werewolf sightings: Two.
Punch-ups: One.
Instances of eerie foreshadowing: Too numerous to count.

(BTW, Rogue by Rachel Vincent? OMG. Somebody else hurry up and read it so I can talk about it with you.)

Comments

[sanguinepen.livejournal.com]

I love drug usage (not by me)... LOL

I haven't read the book, but there are members of urbanfantasyfan who have. Feel free to start a discussion about it over there. Just keep any spoilers in the initial post under a cut.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Cool, I might mosey along and see. :)

[pubd2b.livejournal.com]

yay the word meter folks are back online!! best wishes on your efforts :)

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[madlee276.livejournal.com]

Eerie foreshadowing is HARD, I think. Go you!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I usually find I've done it accidentally...

[leatherzebra.livejournal.com]

I READ IT!!! Bug me!

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

OMFG! Andrew! Manx! Faythe and Marc! The trial! I loved the Faythe/Andrew plot - I figured after reading Stray that Andrew would pop up again, but that caught me totally off guard.

[leatherzebra.livejournal.com]

I expected we'd see more of Andrew this book because of how the last one ended. I thought the Faythe and Marc aspect was much better this time around. Last time if felt like he was nothing more than convenience for her, and the fact that her parents manipulated them into being together?? Creepy! But this time it seemed like they actually cared about each other, even if Marc is way, way too needy. I like Luiz and Miguel's plot, especially with the strays. Okay, I don't like it, but that's where I would have gone if it was my series.

I loved Manx. I liked that it cost Faythe something to fulfill her enforcer duties, and I especially liked that she seems to be far happier, and far more proud of the help she's giving the Pride than she was at the beginning of book one when she was "doing her own thing". She might have been "free" but she seems much happier in the Pride. I think she'd starting to figure that out too.

[naomi-jay.livejournal.com]

I thought the Faythe and Marc aspect was much better this time around.

Agreed; in Stray Faythe seemed to have more trouble with her feelings for Marc than anything else, whereas now she seems to have realized that she wants to be with him despite her parents' manipulations, not because of them. And I like that, despite being needy, Marc does let Faythe take care of herself in some respects - especially where her enforcer duties are concerned.

I love Manx too, but I'm worried she might end up as one of those women whose problems are magically cured by True Love (which generally translates as good sex). I think Rachel is a better writer than that, but it does happen an awful lot in this genre.

[leatherzebra.livejournal.com]

I will be disappointed if that happens. I posted my video review today at micheleleesbooklove.wordpress.com I really like that there isn't a love triangle in this book. I didn't like Marc at all in this book, but I'm beginning to hate love triangles. They always end up being cruel.