i  have about 66,000 words of non-contiguous text.  This is the two-thirds mark.

I’ve learned a huge amount writing these 66,000 words.  One of the things I have learned is that the important thing is to write whenever I have the chance (note that this is not the same thing as writing every day–unfortunately, I really don’t have the chance to write every day, and the only reason I managed to get some writing done last Friday was that I stayed up until 2:30 AM to do so).  And what that means is that sometimes, if I’m not feeling a scene, what I need to do is skip it and write a scene that I am feeling.  Eventually, it all comes together.

I’m at the lovely point where things are beginning to come together.  Part of this means that I ended up trying to write a scene and discovered that the motivation of the villain who drives the scene is insufficient to support his actions.  And so I carried that around for a day, and then realized in particular light-bulb fashion, that I could manufacture a much more entertaining–and believable–motivation for his actions.  Of course, I’ll have to clean all that up in the reediting process, but it’s hugely fun.

And there I am.  66,000 words in.  It’s kind of shocking.

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