Novel Watch #34: +1 pages [32/62 revised, 85.5 total]
So, I’ve been struggling a bit with my work here, and honestly, when it gets difficult it stops being very much fun. So, today I did things differently to make things more fun — I jumped ahead to Part 2, and wrote the first half a page, skipping over about a chapter and a half of unwritten stuff at the end of part 1, and the rest of the revision. Then I went back and did a little rewriting on one scene to make it from Bandolor’s perspective.
The nice thing about skipping to part 2 is that it’s kind of the comedy section of the book. In a way it’s the interlude between all the bad stuff that happens in part 1 and the gathering disaster of part 3, and getting away from the action of part 1 makes it easier to adopt a more tongue-in-cheek voice.
No excerpt today, as I don’t have anything for you that isn’t full of spoilers (I’ve gotta have a few surprises). I’ll have an excerpt again soon, I promise!