So... Chapter 3 could possibly be done... maybe.
I'm having difficulty deciding whether to post the chapter as-is, with only half as many words as the other two chapters so far and most other chapters are likely to have, and this, having taking over twice as long to write. Or, switch back from Janet's perspective to Drew's and keep writing (which is what would happen anyways, but as a new chapter), probably wind up taking until late Sunday to finish, and ending up with a chapter-and-half chapter length.
I know what caused the difference in chapter length. If anything, we learn even more about the background of the situation in this chapter than we have in either of the other two chapters, but Janet's mind operates at a different meter than Drew's does, and this caused a faster general pacing, resulting in fewer words to demonstrate the information in.
In actuality, only very little real-time has passed, Janet spends the entire time thinking about the first two times she met Drew, and the first time her and Jack's daughter did.
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Or maybe a third option...
And continue writing from Janet's perspective for a little longer. I was planning on doing a small skip directly to Christina joining Drew in the bathroom, but I could have Christina and Janet talk for a few minutes... probably wouldn't add terribly much to the word count though, and the idea feels fluffy to me.
Abigail Drew.
:)
honstly *shrug* post what you are happyest with :)
I play online games *rolls eyes* yes I am one of those people :P
Fav puplished authors atm are Patricia Briggs (Mercy Thompson series),Carrie Vaughn (Kitty series), Kim Harrision.
Perhaps
...you're doing it wrong.
Whenever this sort of thing happens to me I find the best action to take is to down tools and take a good, long overview of what has happened so far.
If I get some kind of logjam or conflict like you're describing it usually means I've done something wrong somewhere, or I haven't yet found the best approach to continuation.
So, take a deep breath, accept that the next post is going to be delayed, and look back and decide if what you plan to do is in fact the right thing.
Penny
Thank you for your advice...
But I'm not quite sure you understood the conflict. It's not that I don't know where to continue from here, shoot, I have enough events and information in my head for probably the next 3 chapters beyond this one. It's that I wasn't sure HOW to continue from here. ~1500 words would have been mighty short. ~4000-6000 words is going to feel a little long. Inserting a short scene between mom and daughter that I knew about but didn't originally intend writing because it felt too fluffy might have brought a Janet-only solution to ~2000 words. I've opted to go ahead and make it a half-Janet, half-Drew chapter and have a slightly longer chapter, (see next blog post that is in actuality my decision to this one.)
Abigail Drew.