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For some reason, this seems harder than last year. I’m bored with my characters and the story is going nowhere fast. You might say that I’m expecting too much; I’m not that far into the novel yet. But last year by this word count two planets had already been taken over! Thus far in The Dan Brown Code we’ve discovered that our main character uses his laptop on a folding chair because he doesn’t have a desk. Now which one grabs you and makes you want to read more, hm? Don’t say the chair one. Because that’s wrong.

Also, my style seems to be suffering. I really like how I wrote Megalomania! barring a few awkward parts that a little editing could fix. Now my narration just seems clunky and unwieldy. I read a bit of The Da Vinci Code to see if I could lift Brown’s style for comedic effect, but all that did was make me realize he has no style. Aside from chapter breaks every three pages, which really doesn’t count.

I’m going to try writing on my laptop for a bit. Maybe the increasingly uncomfortable heat it generates in my lap will spur me on to writing greatness.