Writing Update: 27/11/23 (Patreon)
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A little late with the update - a nasty cold crept in last week, blossomed during the week and laid me low over the weekend. Still feeling rough - getting through the working day (on a steady stream of Advil) was hard enough, with limited energy left over for writing.
Previous word count: 67,070
Current word count: 68,077
Change: +1007
Although word count doesn't mean much at this point - it should be going down rather than up, really, as I edit the Interlude before posting it.
Parts 1/3 and 3/3 have had their first run through, and I think I can consider them pretty much done and dusted - if I can bring myself to stop tinkering with them, of course. Part 2/3 is taking a bit longer. Re-reading, I found the conversation between Katherine, Jonathon and Crystal to simply be too long. It's all relevant stuff, I think, but at over 7k words made for a very long scene for the reader. I'd known this for awhile, but kept putting off doing anything about it.
So I've started moving things around to break it up a bit, and am working on inserting a pair of short scenes. One focuses on Steele - when Jonathon and Crystal confront Katherine as to the need to continue with the disguise, she responds angrily that they don't know their enemy, not as she does. This seems a natural place for a break - either to a) show the initial encounter between David and Steele, or b) give Katherine a flashback. Right now I'm writing out the first option - we'll see how it turns out.
Also considering adding in a short scene a little earlier that focuses on David's experience at the photoshoot.
I'm reluctant to post 1/3 until the whole thing is wrapped up, just in case I change something that impacts the first part of the story. Hopefully by the end of the week - if this damned cold would just go away!