Writing Update: 10/11/23 (Patreon)

Start of week: 56, 379

End of week: 59, 702

Word count: +3323

A difficult week.  Started strong, but a personal crisis--some bad news--really took the wind out of my sails.  Writing in these circumstances is an odd thing.  On the one hand, a welcome escape from the concerns of real life, an established routine offering something else to think about.  On the other--well, I found myself staring at the screen on Wednesday unable to write and wondering what, exactly, I was doing.

Fortunately, things got better.  Writing resumed.  It's a difficult scene, the moment in which David discovers his fate, setting up the return to the normal first-person narrative.  I've had a couple of tries at it and had to restart a few times.  Still not convinced I've got it right, but making progress again.  His difficult encounter with the other three is interspersed with memories of the previous night with Chad, which seems to be working - instead of a scene in itself it acts as a counterpoint to what's happening in the present.

Sneak Peek to folllow!