Roll

Writing this at night, since I didn't have time in the morning. 

I managed to finish another page of Where You Belong, and I'm still really close to the end of the chapter. I'm going slowly 50% due to work and other projects and 50% because I want this upcoming interaction to be solid, even in rough draft form. 

I keep saying rough draft, but in a lot of ways, it feels like even less than that. Rough draft implies something that just needs polish, and this is more like, a linear collection of events, I guess, that may or may not make sense to anyone but me. 

Basically, this is the best method I've found so far to get myself writing in a way that gets the story done. Otherwise, I either dawdle on doing anything, or get so lost outlining and world-building on one end, and endlessly agonizing over getting a word or a sentence just right on the other, the gosh darn book doesn't get done at all. 

A little at a time, focusing on roughing out several chapters or even an arc first, then  turning back to edit and work on the piece. At least for now. 

It does suck not to be able to share what I have with everyone, though. This latest chapter is especially exciting because Valerie is going to get mind controlled. Even worse, she's going to get mind controlled as a direct consequence of advice she herself gave. 

After that, I'm still convinced I need that other POV chapter to further flesh out the world and get the plot moving in a direction that will finally start Valerie on the road I need her to be. This is all leading up to her trying to steal the infinimap, remember. She just needs to get some cultural education and a nice spoonful of suffering, first.

In passing

It's been a clear, mild few days here, with a lot of sunshine and very little rain. It's a little odd, actually, after such a long period of sweltering heat, to suddenly turn cool like this. 

We're a little early for autumn yet, so I'm rather expecting this is a bit of a meteorological blip. Sweaters and heating units are still staying packed away for now. 

I really need to write something for my websites journal. I've actually got more than one topic suited for a proper ramble, rather than the short-ish posts I make here, but its at the bottom of the priority list of several other writing projects I'm working at the moment, so its been put off.