Day Two (early)

Ok, I know I'm fully involved in this novel for a couple of reasons:
1. I am irritated and annoyed with how I'm not making a lot of visible progress. It's like the water behind the dam is building up. I'm doing research and finding all sorts of cool connections. My characters are talking to me and clamoring for attention like a trio of bad therapy clients, leaving me voice mails, IMing me, emailing and begging for attention. (I'm not a therapist, but that's how I imagine bad, needy clients to be.)
2. I have 17 other great ideas and revelations on other ongoing projects. I'm going to write those down too, perhaps having several documents open at the same time and inching my way toward milestones.

I don't think I get my pedicure today. I miscalculated on the word count, counting 1,800 words twice as I had duplicated them in the several documents I'm using as my "draft." Using Scrivener again this year, and I am settling into how it feels. The corkboard, note cards is useful, and the "Edit Scrivenings" will be great when it comes time to organize this mess.

Right now, I have a page each on each main character, a page on each bit of wiki research I am doing, and several different pages on themes, topics and big ideas that I want to incorporate.

Oh, and of course now it's time to go somewhere and I'm trying to figure out how I can take my laptop to church. Um, no. Not good.

So after church, grocery shopping and dog walking, it's back to the keyboard.