Sweat70 - Day 2

Just so you know, I won’t be posting about this challenge each and every day, but in the beginning, I want to start off right at least, so I might post more about it in the next few days than I will as time goes on…

Yesterday I did well on the challenge writing just shy of 3000 words. Woo-hoo! I also put up an overall word count meter in the sidebar of this blog. It looks rather sad now, but we’re only just starting, so I set a goal of about 100,000 words in the next 70 Days of Sweat. I might expand that goal somewhere down the line, but I thought it a good, round number to start with.

One of the things I’ll be doing is posting little tidbits - not excerpts exactly - but little snippets of what I’ve written the day before so you can get a little flavor of what I’m working on. The snippet below is from Davin’s Quest, the second in my Resonance Mates series. It’ll be out from Samhain in February 2008.

Rick St. John had learned survival skills at his father’s knee. There was no better man to learn from than Zachariah St. John, former Army Ranger and medical doctor. He knew how to survive in the worst conditions, how to hide, and how to fight. He taught his son all the skills he’d need to survive in the Waste and gave him more of an education than most children born near the end of the world as they knew it ever attained.

But the day the Alvians finally caught up with him, Rick was not at his best. Sick with a high fever, he wasn’t able to use his gift of healing or his extensive knowledge of either medicine or self-defense. His reaction time was way off and when the soldiers captured him, they took him not to prison, but to a hospital ward where he stayed for the first three weeks of his captivity.

He didn’t make a lot of friends during that time, but he’d used the opportunity to learn more about his new situation before the Alvians realized he was more recovered than he let on.

He didn’t let them know about his talents either. As far as they knew, he was a minor telepath. He wasn’t about to become the subject of study when they realized just what he could do. Healing talent as strong as his was rare. He’d be damned if he’d give the Alvians another lab rat to study.