Day 16 - 27,203 words written

Another 2k of words. Split the work of in the morning and afternoon. Well, really night. But, I'll be done with everything before midnight.

Good day. Things are coming along, but I'm not sure how I'm going to tell this story. I might push the opening back a bit... let some more of the girls on the boat thing happen. As it is, the ship part basically happens at the end of the book. I was, am and maybe thinking too much like a screen story and not a book story. You know, action action in a screen story, a bit less in a book... more explanation and exposition in the book. I'm not sure.

Also I want to have a grand tour of the galaxy. I'm not sure how that will work.

And I'm struggling in my head. Is this a Young Adult book (if it is, where are the sparkly vampires) or is it a harder SF book. The only thing I can explain it is like is a story by Leiji Matsumoto. The guy did stories like Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Space Battleship Yamato, and Galaxy Express 999. These were amazing tales, but with Captain Harlock clearly violating the laws of physics. (I mean, where did they get a cape to flap in the wind? On the open flying bridge of the ship?! What?!) GE999 really is the one that breaks, tears down and totally jumps up and down on the science of SciFi.

The GE999 is a space railroad. That is, a railroad that flies on... no tracks... across space. There is the graveyard on Pluto that guards people in suspended animation. Also, on the train, if you stick your head out of the window, you are hit by the AIR PUSHING YOU BACK! (Also, there is Matel, and a computer that wants to rule the universe... a lot of other stuff..)

Now, you might think that Leiji doesn't really know things about space. You would be wrong about that. He is a fanatic for details, and he does a lot of research and he is the president of an astrological society in Japan. So, why would he get all that simple stuff plain wrong?

I believe that Mr Matsumoto is trying to tell a whimsical story in a whimsical way. He, like most Japanese storytellers and heck, a lot of American and English... well, lets just say ALL storytellers use metaphor to tell their stories. Took me a while to realize this. He is using beautiful stories with "correct" visualizations (blowing capes, kids looking out of trains with their hair blown back, etc) to tell a story about oppression and dehumanization in post WWII Japan.

While, I want a full story with whimsy and some sense of realism. In the story ::SPOILER ALERT:: there is no artificial gravity in Molly's ship, "The Luck of the Irish". She and her mother float around the ship. But, Molly is growing. This leads me to say in the story that if Molly stays in that environment, she will have growth issues.

This is part of the story, a pretty big one. So, now I want to go past a few of the galaxy's sights. Now, I've got to plot a path past some bug nebulas and things, avoiding some of the local stars I think will be colonisable (cus I've said I want them on a frontier).

And to top that off, I want the story to be about Molly but it seems to be trying to actually be about Wendy, Molly's mom.

Some questions. Hope I dig up some of the answers...