I got 281 words, and am up to 18,423 total, and was rolling along pretty nicely.
Hit the end of Chapter 5, rolled over to Chapter 5, and found stuff written clear through Chapter 8 that I’ll either have to save or delete. But I also discovered that the book I’ve been writing since the Cave is different by a lot (and better by a lot) than the story I’d been telling up to that point.
So now I have to pull out my Book 5 Line-for-Scene outline, see if there’s anything in it I can save, and re-plot from there. I have another hour and change to work on this before I have to move over to writing-school-upgrade stuff.
So there aren’t going to be anymore words today, and tomorrow might have a terrific word slaughter pending…
But I’m going to see how cleverly non-destructive I can be in working in what I’ve already written. (THIS USUALLY GOES BADLY.)
Either way, none of the rest of the words I’ll do today will count. They’ll all be line-for-scene outlining and rethinking.
