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[charamei]

Miasma

17380 / 50000 words. 35% done!

First Steps:

15405 / 20000 words. 77% done!

Yesterday, I completely redid my plot outline to accommodate certain epiphanies regarding the nature of the book I'm writing, and actually wrote maybe 500 words of Miasma and 1167 of First Steps.

Today, my hero barged into the king archon's office, sat down, and... recapped the plot in an epic 1,000-word speech of epicness. Which was extremely useful of him, since (a) I now know what happened in the ideal first draft of this novel up to the point I'm now at, and (b) while he was at it I got some interesting insights into his motivation and filled in a couple of remaining logic holes.

(Meanwhile, in First Steps land, wow, that 1,100 words feels good, and so does breaking the original 15k aim. I might even finish it this month!)