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edenfallingHa! Scene one of ch. 14 is defeated! I have said everything that needs to be said, and laid some groundwork for transitioning into scene two.
...Now I get to start writing scene two. *headdesk*
I am never sure, beforehand, how difficult any given scene will be to write. Sometimes I think they'll go smoothly and they take a couple thousand words and weeks of teeth-pulling torture. Other times I think they'll be long and complicated, and they resolve themselves in half an hour and a couple hundred words. So I am wary of predictions.
Scene two could be easier than scene one, since it involves fewer people and I think the specific emotional dynamics are more straightforward. Or it could be much harder, because of the particular characters involved (Ginny, Daphne, and Apple, mostly) all of whom are stubborn and prideful in some way. And I need to go back and reread the last couple scenes of ch. 13, because I think I lost my grasp on Ginny's emotional arc during my struggle with ch. 14 scene one -- I'm not sure where she ought to be in her recovery process by now. *sigh*
But still. I now have 2,125 words in rough draft. That leaves anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 words to go until I meet my self-imposed chapter length requirement, at which point I will either be done with the entire novel (OMG!) or will get to start working on an epilogue (please no).
*contemplates outline* Remind me why I do this to myself?
...Now I get to start writing scene two. *headdesk*
I am never sure, beforehand, how difficult any given scene will be to write. Sometimes I think they'll go smoothly and they take a couple thousand words and weeks of teeth-pulling torture. Other times I think they'll be long and complicated, and they resolve themselves in half an hour and a couple hundred words. So I am wary of predictions.
Scene two could be easier than scene one, since it involves fewer people and I think the specific emotional dynamics are more straightforward. Or it could be much harder, because of the particular characters involved (Ginny, Daphne, and Apple, mostly) all of whom are stubborn and prideful in some way. And I need to go back and reread the last couple scenes of ch. 13, because I think I lost my grasp on Ginny's emotional arc during my struggle with ch. 14 scene one -- I'm not sure where she ought to be in her recovery process by now. *sigh*
But still. I now have 2,125 words in rough draft. That leaves anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 words to go until I meet my self-imposed chapter length requirement, at which point I will either be done with the entire novel (OMG!) or will get to start working on an epilogue (please no).
*contemplates outline* Remind me why I do this to myself?
