Day Six - 12,097 words and counting

This month, I'm writing a novel. All my progress can be found on my private blog. The commentary for each day's work can be found below.

I now start onto chapter three, which returns to the girl's POV. I had to take a nice long ramble to figure out how to start this scene, to draw parallels with chapter one without covering the same territory. I think I managed it, but you be the judge.

Man, long expository sections are tough to write. I've spent two chapters and a prologue so far, setting up the mystery. There's still a lot the reader doesn't know, and shouldn't know, but it was time to reveal the setup.

Bryony, as we can now call her, doesn't know who she was. There is certain evidence that she was one of the highborn, and certain evidence that she was not. Either way, she wants very badly to find out who she was. She also wants to know where she is, since she has no knowledge of the geography or political situation. She, like the reader, is coming into this cold.

In this section, which comprises the entirety of chapter three, I also wanted to hint at where the story is going in the short term. We've made it past the first big set piece, which culminated with the scene with the mask in the bathroom. Now the first act of the story can begin, and it is centered around Bryony becoming a part of her class.

I had originally meant to make chapter three longer, but I like the end it has, and there's nothing wrong with a short chapter here and there.

Today's Total: 1,700 / 1,689 words (100.7%)
Progress to Date: 12,097 / 10,132 words (119.4%)
Total Progress: 12,097 / 52,347 words (23.1%)