Novel Watch #18: +5.5 pages [57.5 total]
Well, I added over 5 pages today, but it feels pretty rough. There’s some nice action in this section, and things are starting to get bad for my characters, so that’s all good. I need to go back and flesh things out here later, though, and add in more personal stuff about Adrianna. That’ll happen later, though, as I need to do some heavy rewriting in the earlier chapters first. The bad part about getting to know my characters better is that it means that my earlier stuff is less apt than it needs to be. Ah well.
Either way, the purpose of this draft is to get a solid sense of the structure of the story, and to flesh out the characters in such a way that I have a really good sense of them for my later drafts. Which isn’t to say that I don’t want it to be good to begin with, but a least I’m keeping things in perspective.
No excerpt today. Bedtime.