Day Fifty - 95,236 words and counting

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.

Wow, fifty straight days of writing. I mean, I've already broken my personal record, but this just throws the record down on the ground and pees on it. And since I ought to hit the 100k mark this Saturday, well, it's looking like a good week for writing.

I'm going to take a brief look back and see what I've accomplished so far. In the prologue, I showed a glimpse of the future, where Bryony is in a position of some authority, but has other, mysterious goals. Then I picked up where the first book left off, and had Bryony make a deal of sorts with Gessica. Neither trusts the other, but there are no open hostilities.

I then go to two short scenes, one through the POV of Gideon, the captain of the market guard, and the other through Tynofast, whom we know as the personal magician of the Patroness. Both have the same goal--to identify Bryony's attackers. I thereby imply that neither party is responsible.

At this point, I have the choice to either skip ahead to the future again, or pick up with Bryony as she leaves to go to visit the Patroness. I think... the former. Yes, after two chapters, I need to revisit the other time frame if I'm going to at all.

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It's coming slow today. I got stalled around 300 words, and by the time I got started again, it was time to go to work. So I'm left with another 1,000 to try to get through at lunch. Tonight I've got a bowling night, which I'd like to go to if possible. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything, even when you get up at 4:30am.

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And as it turns out, I got nothing done at lunch, so it's evening again. But the good news is that I got a great idea for how to end this chapter, though you won't see that until tomorrow.

Bertie is one of those characters made necessary by the plot, but I tried to make her interesting, with a backstory of her own and a distinctive manner of speech. I may give her a larger part to play at some point, but regardless, I think it's better to have an interesting character than a nameless backdrop.

I like the wordplay with Fiya. Neither she nor Bryony quite knows how much the other knows, and neither wants to give an inch. They can't help needling each other sometimes, but both are aware of propriety, and do not want to go overboard with anything. It makes for an interesting dynamic.

One of the challenges is going to be switching between mature Bryony and teenage Bryony. She's done a lot of growing over the six years that have passed, so I'll want to make sure that the difference is clear, but that they differences grow less as I cover that six year span.

Interesting stuff is about to happen later in chapter 3. It continues tomorrow!

Today's Total: 1,776 / 1,689 words (105.2%)
Nov. Progress to Date: 36,009 / 32,091 words (112.2%, 2.3 days ahead)
Nov. Total Progress: 36,009 / 50,670 (71.1%)
Book 2 Est. Completion 11,367 / 84,450 words (13.5%, 43 days to go)
Est. Completion: 95,236 / 250,000 words (38.1%, 92 days to go)