A Month Later

After completing Entry Thirteen in my tentatively titled novel, I decided to back up my work and check on my progress. I've written 118 pages, all told. At this rate I'd likely have enough material in two more months for a complete novel, but it depends on how it plays out. I'm reminded of participating in an NaNoWriMo (or however you're supposed to capitalize that) and ending up with about fifty pages of nonsensical gibberish about robots. Hopefully this project turns out a bit better. 

About some of the directions I'm taking with this novel:

I was originally going to have everyone on New Gaia talk with outrageous British accents, then I realized it would be like having a planet full of Ronald Weasleys. ("Bloody 'ell!")

I was also going to use the not-quite future swearing popularized by comic books like Lobo, 2000 A.D., and TV shows like Battlestar Galactica. ("Frak!") At the moment, there's no swearing in the novel, unless it's still 1988 and you count "Hell," and, "bastard," as swears (I know my mom does.) I'm trying to keep it basic, but I'm wondering if all the characters sound the same, like a terribly written Shakespeare play. I'm also noticing that it's mostly dialogue In fact, it could practically be a script, so if the dialogue's no good, then the whole novel is garbage. That's concerning.