What's going on

So, here we are in 2012, forging on into the future and cracking a lot of Mayan apocalypse jokes. What have I been up to? Ah, working and playing video games and cleaning up the holiday fallout. And writing the opening of Render -- the actual opening of Render, or at least a closer version.

I've taken a few shots at Render drafts so far. They weren't all coherent, but each version made it a little farther into the story and laid more pieces down. I have a better idea now of what Render will end up like. I've spent enough time with the protagonist, Rue, enough to feel like I can do a good job writing her. And now I'm shuffling sentences around in the first chapter, adjusting the way characters meet and the plans they lay, trying to make all the information line up.

I'm never sure what to discuss on my blog while I'm at this stage of writing. The characters are in flux, getting tweaked whenever I have a better idea, so talking specifics about the people in Render probably wouldn't be accurate for long. And my plots never trump my characters, so the story events are up in the air, too. (Frankly, I'm just glad I don't have a deadline carved in stone for any of this.)

So if Render's mystery story is mysterious even to me, I guess I'll have to chat about other things! Stay tuned for video game plots or my life experiences or something!