Well, I hit (the equivalent of) 14,997 words today, so I’m on course. I finished my first big pass-through of the text (started with my writing group this past year) and entry into YWriter. And, of a coolness, I discovered a plot reveal at the end — two of them, in fact — that I had completely forgotten about from those frenzied write-in days at the end of NaNo 2011.
From there, I’ve started going through the notes on each character and updating them. That has, in turn (a) pointed out some plot elements I dropped toward the end, and (b) some inconsistencies in how I explained things. It also showed me that I had introduced the Real Solution to the Murder way too early (in terms of the why, not the who), which I’m now patching up.
I’m writing up a checklist of stuff I want to work on each scene.
I also realized that 2/3 of the writing is from Roger’s perspective, only 1/3 from Chrys. I’d like to do something about that, and a gap in something I need to do with Chrys may actually work out well to make some of that up.
So, overall, going well. Not feeling quite the pressure (yet), and we’re going on a third of the month already.
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Kitten is doing well, too. She’s hot and heavy into her revision of last year’s book (to make it more “middle school” and less “kids book” oriented). Figuring out word counts for her has been a bit difficult — we need to consult — but she seems to be spending time, and enthusiastically, which is the important thing.
