Somehow, I only reached a word count of 1,213 in the morning. My goal is 1,250 per commute, but I expected more than this.
Actually, considering how tired I was, and how I stopped at various points to decide on what should happen next, it’s understandable for the word could to not exceed 1,250. It’s not that the characters were failing to direct the story. I simply needed certain things to happen and other things to not happen, and I needed the cooperation of the characters to fit into the mold. What happens with Arle in this chapter in necessary for the next plot point.
Since I hadn’t finished the chapter, I decided to merge AM and PM writing into a single chapter.
During lunch today, I wasn’t even thinking about how things will go for the third arc. I have a rough idea, but nothing I can pull any significant bit of story from. I’d handle it when I reached that point, so I wasn’t thinking about it one bit while walking around outside, and enjoying the warmth of the sun. Then, it hit me. The perfect idea.
I’ll still try to stretch out arc two as much as I can. I don’t want to spend more than a week on arc three if I don’t have to, as arc two stands as the story-based arc, and arc three is “simply” the character-based arc. I can do that because this is only the first draft of the story. There’s plenty of room to grow the characters in all arcs in later draft, as well as pull story together in the first arc, and add to it in the third arc.
The best part of the realization for the third arc is it can still incorporate the loose idea I had in the first place, and it actually builds well on top of it.
Following 1,123 words with 1,875 words makes for a nice 3,088 words for the day.
