Writing Update: 03/11/23 (Patreon)

Start of week: 52,030

End of week: 56,379

Word count: +4349

An odd week: a number of major disruptions and Friday, especially, was poor for writing, but still crushed the weekly target largely due to a little inspiration, I suppose. 

Anticipating some major writing-blockage as I started the third part of the Interlude, I was pleasantly surprised at how easily it flowed in the little time I was able to salvage from the week.  The opening line ("On the final day of David Saunders’ manhood...,") had been floating around in my head for a bit, and I hope it survives the final edit.  I think switching to his 3rd person point of view was the right way forward, but I wasn't entirely clear how I was going to get him to his appointment with the other three via the meeting with Mal.

The meeting with Mal was plotted out a few months ago, a change broughout about by some edits earlier in the Interval.  But the bit in the canteen, and Ivy especially, was a bit of a surprise, as is the scene that follows that converstaion. , Inspired by an audiobook I'm listening to that references Plath's The Bell Jar; I'll save it for the next Sneak Peak.