So, after a first day of writing 1k, I had to write a bit more every day to get back on par. Today's par is 5k, and I have just finished my writing streak of today at 5,011 words. It still feels very much like the beginning of the story, like I'm getting to know the characters and figuring out who they are and what they're going to do.
This year I'd planned ahead and given myself a book of 22 chapters; 1 prologue, 10 flashback chapters interspersed with 10 present-day chapters, and 1 epilogue. Today, I decided to throw all of that out, and just mix the flashbacks in together with the rest of the story, without bothering with chapter starts or finishes. I can't see why I never realised to do this before, maybe I'll run into issues with this later on, but for now it feels like a revelation. It does make the whole thing more stream-of-consciousness, which is in the modernist corner I usually try to avoid, but we'll see how it works out.
Tomorrow I'll be at a write-in, so I hope to get lads more words in before the business of the workweek prevents me from writing for one or two hours every day!
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