Writing Roundup

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So, my word count on the story first thing this morning was 10,247. And now it's 6,395.

In spite of the retrograde word count, I think I've made progress. I've excised a bunch of scenes I quite liked but could never get to fit in properly. (Those of you who've seen the story thus far in various stages of disrepair can probably guess which scenes. I've kept them in a separate file, though, in case I manage to work out how to use them in this story or elsewhere.) And I've got a general idea of how the rest of it will go, though it's a much vaguer idea than I usually have when writing. I'm finding with this one I discover things as I go. Freaking terrifying, but interesting. Probably helps that there's no deadline and no definite destination for the story, so letting it be done when it's done is absolutely okay.

And now, I'm off to bed, so I can be up early to resume my mom-ish duties.

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Trimming was very hard. Especially as it meant losing at lot of scenes I was rather fond of. But the through line is much clearer now, and I think I may be able to re-integrate the excised stuff when the main part is finished. (I'm keeping my fingers crossed, anyway.)