Done.
Am burned out now. Have been since around 44-46 hours done. Still more to go, but I need a break to work on other things.
Am burned out now. Have been since around 44-46 hours done. Still more to go, but I need a break to work on other things.
2 hours down, 2 to go. I was so not in the mood to do it today- there's other things I REALLY want to go do- but I managed to drag myself through 2 more hours of research. This time on Waipio Valley, Judith's hometown, which is difficult to find out info on. (No Internet or phone down there, so locals aren't chiming in on what life is like there.) I wanted her to be a born island girl, a surfer, brought up around art, from somewhere totally isolated compared to the fame-whoring life she lives on the mainland- also that WV would be a refuge for her to return to when things went wrong.
I feel awkward about using the place (even though it's not mentioned until book 2, and not a lot there either really) because you know locals are going to think I'm on crack. As well they should. But I am at a loss as to how I'd do more research on the place- I've been there, I look online, I've talked to a local. I don't know how one would CONTACT a local from the mainland...a problem for the novel as well as for my research. Uh-oh.
I was amused to find a video online featuring my guide from when I went there. That guy is a hoot. I put him in the novel (by name, even). I probably shouldn't do that- at least change the name- but I want him in there, he was so cool.
Really, I should change some things about this scenario, but I don't want to. Aggravating.
2 more hours, 2 more to go.
SO not in the mood to do it today, though, as I started thinking through some things in my life (writing-related) and was more excited about that. Mostly researched Waipio Valley (Judith's hometown). I thought the place would be great for her to come from, but it's hard to find anything online about it. I went there in July so I know what it's like to BE there, but not so much on the daily life (and they don't have Internet down there, so it's not like a local is chiming in too often). But I think I'm going to leave it in after all. I do want her to return there at some point by book 2 as a point of her spiritual development, and I found one quote that really resonate with what I want her to have realized at that point in time.
I was rather amused to find a VIDEO of our Waipio native guide from when I went online. I so want to put that guy into the story (well, he is in now, I want to LEAVE him in), he cracks me up.
Two more hours, so 46.
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