Ten days in

Not much energy left....work was insane all week, and I got very little writing down before today. AND, all of it seems to have gone missing, so I had to rewrite everything I'd written since Tuesday (about 1500 words). I'll post more about it tomorrow, but I skipped ahead past the scene I was working on in hopes it was on my home computer, got to a nice cliffhanger and have gone back to write the missing words as well as the end of that scene.

Spend the night at my favorite coffee house and got over 4K written tonight. I'm at 17K, and will break the 20K barrier tomorrow. Still liking the novel, but I have to get the characters MOVING or they'll never make it to where the main part of the plot is. That's right, I'm at 17K, and my characters haven't physically moved.

However, a new set of antagonists have showed, and I think they will be chasing the characters, meaning the danger is rising. As I read through the novel, Karen seems utterly expendable to readers, so they will be looking for her to die. Too bad she's not going to. And knowing that, I can play with it. I can mess with reader expectations, which s always good in my mind.

Now, off to the car, then home and to bed, unless the pretty barrista starts asking me about my novel and British comedies again, in which case, I'll be awake a lot longer than I plan to be.