Jenna Waterford
scribbling in the trenches

I reviewed my progress and read over my outline and realized I’d run through all the plot I’d worked out during my first leapfrog session (thank you, again, Linnea Sinclair), so tonight was spent working out the next hop.

I’m in the middle of chapter six, and this hop should take me to the end of the first third of the book.  I should adjust my counter as this book is much more likely to be about 120K rather than the 90K I’ve been saying on the counter [but the percentage goes up so fast when I'm only aiming at 90K].

Since there is a lot of existing content from my first draft well before I split the story into thirds (of which SanClare Scarlet is the second), reworking it is a bit tricky.  I can’t just follow it through because things have changed and need adjusted.  There’s some stuff that should just go away, no matter how I like it.  And then there’s some stuff that’s going to be even more useful this time around.

It’s funny to read through this very rough draft — there are parts of it where I had a *terrible* time maintaining POV, mostly because I wasn’t paying enough attention to that — I was just throwing all the ideas, words, etc., at the page as fast as I could type.  But it’s funny to read my usual third person limited turn into third person omniscient with no warning.  I point and laugh at myself, clean it up, and move on.

Maybe I should figure out how to do one of those sidebar counters.  But!  Until then — Whoo-hoo! Almost 20%!  This is a rough section that’s going to need some work, so much more slow-going…