day 26, session 1, 39455

So here’s the first set for the day. Now I’m off to run again, which I’m not looking forward to [whenever am I however?]
I really hate running. But it works. Also I want to do it while the weather is nice.
Also, I need to figure out what is going to happen to make Del panicked about Julie which will drive the last quarter of the novel. Right now we’re having lots of fun in Istanbul, but it’s not going to last forever. He has to get back to France somehow.

Next year

So last night I thought about what I want to do next year (novella series) what genre I’d like to play with next (fantasy) and started brainstorming ideas for it.

I had stayed away from fantasy due to the amount of world-building I thought would be involved, but decided to work on something more character based and fill in the details later [a bit like how I am handling the historic elements in my current book].

Still, as I would not be writing this for another 8 months, that will give me lots of time to brainstorm and create a skeleton.

day 25, session 2 38169

Less than 4k words behind now.

Whole new subplot. Will have to be worked back in, but finally I have another thread for Paris–as well as some interesting parallels for the second book.

I think the shower is dripping and it sounds like crackling and it’s been driving me batty for the past fifteen minutes. Otherwise I might have even gotten more done.

Also, note to self: running IS good for ideas. Still doesn’t make me like running much though.

day 25, session 1, 37544

Spent the morning doing a loose plot structure for the rest of the story.

Twenty-one scenes mapped out—even if I only write 500 words for each one of them, I’ll be on target.

Hoping I’ll get another session in today.

day 24,i mean day 23, 33930

Deficit finally below 5k. good.

Tomorrow should have him join the OSS. should hit training on Friday but… hard part over weekend. Istanbul. ugh.

I am realizing that the reason chapter four was so hard to write was because I made it too darn long. Four should mostly be split between three and five. Move five back to four. Six to five. seven is two chapter’s worth of materials – back in US; followed by OSS training and sending him to Istanbul.

Paris is wonderful but it’s really not four chapters! Not in this book at least. Also, needs more Normandy.

Everything needs more Normandy.

edited because i had marked this day 24. Not 23 [which is correct]

day 23, 31487 erm I mean day 22.

One of, if not the easiest, days of writing in this entire month.

And a scene I decided to write two days ago with a character that didn’t exist until about day five of the month.

Still, 2k words in about 45 minutes may be a record for me. This evening was so horribly rotten–took me two hours to get home–that I’m shocked I was able to decompress enough to write at all.

Of course, running always seems to burn out all of my anger. Maybe because my annoyance and hatred of running just overshadows everything else.

edited because i had marked this day 23. Not 22 [which is correct]