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leahbobet ([personal profile] leahbobet) wrote2013-05-30 03:29 am

Thud: On Roadstead Farm (evening edition)

May 29, 2013 Progress Notes:

On Roadstead Farm

Words today: 1,500.
Words total: 80,300.
Reason for stopping: It is kind of 3:30am.

Darling du Jour: He looked down at me, startled; a too-young man with a bird, a shaft of sunlight in his hand.

Mean Things: Realizing just how complicated one's fucked-up parent actually was; a non-trivial depressive crash.

Research Roundup: N/A.
Books in progress: [livejournal.com profile] matociquala, Range of Ghosts.


Round two, because I promised myself I'd break 80,000 words tonight.

Tonight in HOW I SAVED THE WORLD TO PUT OFF CLEANING THE HENHOUSE:

Into Chapter 17 and a somewhat unexpected direction, which doesn't take me off-outline, but...considering what conflicts were set up in the early days of this thing I suppose I should've seen it all coming.  It is...still not where I thought we would be.  But there's a line or two in Chapter 16 that touches the very heart of the thing, and you don't do that without a consequence.

Things are sombre right now.  And somewhat heartbroken.  And somewhat true.  At least if you're going to hit a crash, you have access to people with coping tools.  There is that.

Tomorrow, hopefully we kill the rest of Chapter 17.  And then, well.  Shit gets real.

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