Ta-da! and Yay!

So anyway, I'm writing this fantasy novel, and although I'm already having severe doubts as to whether I'm doing a good enough job with it, I'm past 100 pages (handwritten, alas... I've only transcribed 50+ onto the computer).

Now, I'm one of those people who has some trouble with titles. It took me over a year before I thought of a slightly decent title for one story I wrote. But at least I thought of a working title for this one. Ready?

Ta-da!

"Will and Trent's Excellent Adventure"

That is my working title. (Actually I had another working title before that, but it was even worse.) The story is absolutely not similar to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." (I've never seen the whole movie, but I'm pretty sure about this!) I picked the title because, well, it seemed funny at the time.

Heh heh... And, well, two of the characters are called "Will" and "Trent." (I know, these aren't exactly the best names in the world... especially in this world, which *isn't* supposed to be Earth.)

Will is the main character, but the story switches to talking about different characters, depending on where we are in the story.
Will had "the plague" when he was little, and now that he's a grown up, he still has health problems. I think he has what would be called diabetes or hypoglycemia in this world. Anyway, if he doesn't eat for too long, he gets really tired and loses consciousness.

I suppose I made him have this problem because, although I don't have anything as serious as that, I have something similar. If I don't eat soon enough, I can start to feel really yucky -- tired, grumpy, just awful. Like I said, not always, but it can be frightening when it happens.

There's something awful about feeling that way. It makes you feel vulnerable... like an impending sense of doom. Or a clock ticking down.

I guess I like to add things like that to my characters so I can feel sorry for them. No, really, short comings seem to add to character identification.

Take the show "Monk." I really like the fact that the hero Monk has so many problems. It makes me root for him. If he was just the perfect detective, who could solve crimes perfectly, and didn't have any real problems, it would be harder to like him. At least that's what I think.

I hate that I'm doing this, qualifying just about everything I say. The problem is that if I don't -- if I just make a blanket statement -- then I start thinking until I find an exception. And then I have to go back and change it.

I've been obsessing -- are these sentences too "run-on?" I started reading part of a book that talks quite a bit about sentence length, and how one should count one's words. I know when I'm nervous I can tend to jabber... But I don't remember how many words were the best amount... And I don't know if I can cut my sentences, except by making them into fragments. Like this.

Actually, I like fragments. They're fun. Yay for fragments!