Day Fifty-seven - 105,967 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.

How do you pick up from the place where you left off one year ago? Pretend you're picking up from yesterday.

That's what I'm doing today. When we last left our heroes, Bryony had just been told off by Merona for being awesome, and then she asked a very important question about magic, which has not yet been answered. And I think it's time.

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I think the following question is one I'm going to be asking myself constantly, at least at first--how would this scene have gone if I had written it last year? I don't think it would have gone back to that mantra of Merona's, but it arrived there very naturally this time. In fact, for the first time I think that I'm happy about how it turned out right now. I don't think I could have done better a year ago, and might have done it less well.

In other words, I now have confidence that the author I am now can finish this story as well as the author I was then.

I hadn't intended to do a Gideon section here, but it's been a while and I think it's a good point to do it. The audience already knows that Carver is Tynofast, but Gideon doesn't know that. So this section really only accomplishes one thing--to move Gideon's plot forward. But I've also made it give us some more description of the Avenue, and some insight into Gideon's character, both of which help texture out the novel.

Today's Total: 1,834 / 1,689 words (108.6%)
Nov. Progress to Date: 50,910 / 43,914 words (115.9%, 4.1 days ahead)
Nov. Total Progress: 50,910 / 50,670 (100.5%)