Writing Update: 16/07/2023 (Patreon)

Slightly better than the previous week:

+1292 words.  Not great, but an improvement.  Two weeks of illness also left a work backlog to catch up on, but that's nearly done, and I managed to squeeze in a bit of writing.  Went surprising well, actually, as I shifted to a different scene.  Chapter 5 ended with the 'cliffhanger' of Agent K waiting for David in his room at the Clinic.  At first I'd considered dropping that and rewriting that ending, which is why I started the interlude with her reviewing the footage from the cafe. But I started writing out that inital encounter, and it works, I think.  There some great tension to explore there, especially if I remove her scene by the bed in chapter 1.  She's betrayed him, but also kept him alive; she is drawn to him and intensely dislikes him; and he knows all this but for the first time we get to see it from an outside perspective. 

I've also done a bit more tinkering with AI-writing and Sea of Wonder, which helped keep the creative flame alive while ill.  So hopefully I'll have more of that to share in the near future, too.

Take care!