Jenna Waterford
scribbling in the trenches

I’m at 16,795 words on La Cause. So catching up and making the 50K target might be a bit of a job, but I’m not despairing yet. I’m still really pleased with how things are going.

In the grand tradition of Being Me, I started the novel too far into the story.  I do love to in medias res things up, but this happened in early drafts of SanClare Black, too, where I started so far into the story, I would have ended up having to do  a lot of klunky flash-backing to get certain scenes to make any sense at all and then they make no sense because you’re flashing-back every few sentences to explain things.  Awkward.  So what do I do while working on La Cause? The same damn thing. So yesterday and today’s wordage was all about going back and putting a new beginning on the story. 

It all starts with a game of hide ‘n’ seek in the woods–a sort of mutant version that bears much more of a resemblance to the game “ghost in the graveyard” my brothers and friends and I used to play when we were little which was sort of hide ‘n’ seek meets tag but played at night. There were other rules, too…

Childhood used to be so much fun. I feel sorry for modern kids who don’t seem to get (or even want) to roam the neighborhood, playing all kinds of crazy, made-up games and only coming home when their dad’s shout or whistle called them in for supper.

I am behind.  Simple math says I should be at 18350 words, but I’m only at 12750.  No biggie.  I’m very happy with my progress on La Cause, and I can should be able to catch up for the NaNo goal if all goes well.  I’m just pleased that it’s moving along so well when it was being such a fussbudget in earlier draftings.