Week Two Report

It's the halfway point today, and I'm a few words behind. I just crossed into 21K territory, which is off-pace BUT I've been plotting and organizing, now that I have gotten pretty clear on the characters, the scene list and the plot. I have Part 1 very well rough drafted, and have Part 2 moments planned. Part 3 is also coming along, and it looks like there will be a part 4, or a lengthy Epilogue.

So, while this kind of planning doesn't add a lot of words to the manuscript, it DOES make the remaining writing smoother. I am still having to stop and do a lot of research, but mostly I'm putting a few hasty links and notes in the mss so that I can go back in editing and flesh it out.

The next two weeks are just getting the story right, the characters doing the story and revealing themselves in the ways that I have planned.

I stopped to ask myself, as you do, does character X die? No. No one dies, except for peripheral characters. It's not that kind of story. This is a happy, somewhat bittersweet little holiday story, and no one dies.

Thanks for reading, all five of you.