Bookkeeping: Lynch
Jul. 31st, 2012 08:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
clarentineMonday, for once, gave me words. On the bus on the way home, I considered how I could make my proposed next scene worse, and was promptly rewarded with not one, but two nasty plot-thickeners to dump on my long-suffering characters. I still don't know if plotting things out in advance and then writing to the outline is working - this book is moving with glacial speed, in part because I'm just that busy working on other things that must be handled and also because of a recent spate of disturbed nights - but I am working on learning how to write to an outline, so we'll count it as a win, however slow.
(I am slightly encouraged that, for this book as for the previous, it looks like I'm on track to hit the first turning point and end of the first act right at the 100-page mark. I'm just at 47 now. The next 50 pages feel well within reach of my outline.)
New words: 998, an excellent night's work
Total words: 10880
Mean things: urgency's called for, but Jody is having a hard time doing what's asked of him; fear of being run over by the trolley.
Research: trolley tickets; trolley platforms; more photos of Lynchburg; faces and outfits of the Lynchburg well-to-do in 1909.
(I am slightly encouraged that, for this book as for the previous, it looks like I'm on track to hit the first turning point and end of the first act right at the 100-page mark. I'm just at 47 now. The next 50 pages feel well within reach of my outline.)
New words: 998, an excellent night's work
Total words: 10880
Mean things: urgency's called for, but Jody is having a hard time doing what's asked of him; fear of being run over by the trolley.
Research: trolley tickets; trolley platforms; more photos of Lynchburg; faces and outfits of the Lynchburg well-to-do in 1909.
