Well, this has been a satisfing writing month. I have managed to have a good output on all four Fridays, with fewer interruptions, and have been able to churn out a little over 13,000 words in total, to reach a new overall total of 81,176 words! This is my second-most productive month since I started the project, and only a couple of hundred words behind my best ever, so I feel very good about that. I feel as if the story is progressing as it should, at a suitable pace. I read back through parts one, two and three today to make sure my backstory was all straight and, instead of cringing and wanting to set fire to it as I do sometimes, I actually thought it was quite good! I'm not as unhappy with the overall structure as I thought I might be; things move along, characters develop, intensity builds...it might be all right after all!
No romance this week though - the heroine has had time to sit back and think about what she's doing, while also being confronted with further difficulties, the unfortunate result of having a murky past. Such is the stuff of novels!
I also completed by critical commentary of the Theroux book for my travel paper; hope I'm on the right track. It's so hard to know when studying extramurally if you are on the right track or barking up some completely foreign tree...I guess I'll find out in a few weeks when I get my grade. I have booked some great weekends away for the coming more wintry months, which should give me some good fodder for travel stories.
Recent reading
Not a great week for reading - too much sailing, taking advantage of the recent burst of awesome Indian summer weather - but I have started Labyrinth. Not far enough into it to comment yet!
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