I guess I feel like I picked the form since it was the only form I was really interested in. Whether I can do it well or not remains to be seen.

erika - I can only write non-fiction. I think I write it very creatively. But fiction and me are un-mixy things.

Today I am working on my journal article. I must get published or PhD funding chances start shrinking. Erk. Fortunately, it is mostly written, with mainly editing left to do.

I do both, although maybe not either as well as I could...it's tough to know when to come out as bitextual.

I didn't have a lot of time to write this weekend so I'm still working on 36 and 37. I just introduced a new minor character that I hope the reader will recall in a few chapters.

Did more work on 37, though I'm still not very close to being done with 36 & 37. I've introduced another new minor character, the POV's sister. Now I just need to get the POV character back to have one more small conversation, get back to his cabin, and play out one more scene. It's going to go a bit too long unfortunately.

It's now 36, 37, & 38. I've decided to add another scene to kick off the following and final scene of this sequence. Dude made it back to his cabin, now to finish up the action there (and thereabouts) and I can get to cleaning up these three chapters. It'll run a bit long, but the storyline is important so I'll go with it. I'm going to have to find places to cut in the next revision. Freeing up words is going to be the next challenge.

I find I sometimes do stuff like this.

"I don't like this." He felt a sense of apprehension claw into his mind.

Hopefully there's enough of those to knock out a bunch of words.

I've just started the last scene in 38, the intimate scene. There will still be a good amount of clean up. But at least the end of working on 36, 37, & 38 is in sight. The next chapter won't be a complete rewrite, but after that there is a lot of total rewriting until the final two chapters. There is a big lull in the rough draft coming up so I have an opportunity to do some plot cutting.

I keep worrying that I'm trying to stuff too much plot into too few words, but I don't know for sure if that's a bad thing or not. Things keep moving in the story. OTOH, now that I'm revising, I can almost see a three part story with the slight problem that the villain pretty much wins at the end of the second part.

I've been listening to a David Eddings book (my audiobook selections are limited to what I can check out from the library) and I'm somewhat amazed at how little has happened in the first three and a third hours.

Bwah!

I'm not kidding, it took two hours of listening before the orphan with a destiny got off the farm.