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I've been staying up too late all week and being stupid and slow and getting fatter and fatter and my application isn't in.
But I finished Chapter 13 and things are a little different from where I thought they'd be right now. My guy started the chapter being shot at by the watchers, got away by stepping in front of a bystander's car and being dumped off at the emergency room at Valley Medical (thanks to my son I confirmed the geography around there and also checked out the type of injuries he should have to be exactly as messed up as I want him to be). And now at the end of the chapter he's being befriended by a Gothic young woman who wants to be a dental hygienist and artist, and she's about to show him how to forage for fruits and nuts along the streets of San Jose. She's not quite homeless -- she has a room in a house.
I haven't decided whether they'll have sex -- I think she wants to. But it's not what I brought her in for. Honestly, I brought her in to flesh out buying a pair of pants at the Salvation Army (there's one in exactly the right spot for my purposes, I'm so lucky), and then realized that she was the right person to do this other thing.
I have to revise my outline though.
Here's my count for now:
Chapter 1 2150
Chapter 2 3070
CHapter 3 2588
Chapter 4 2707
Chapter 5 2412
Chapter 6 3213
Chapter 7 3008
Chapter 8 2572
Chapter 9 3361
Chapter 10 2778 The Boss killed, and our guy captured, by Iuan's group
Chapter 11 2979 suffering at the hands of Ian
Chapter 12: trying to manipulate Ian's group 2305
Chapter 13: the watchers arrive: and the forager girl 3138
so far -- 36281 (97 pages!!!)
here's the next few chapters:
Chapter 14: foraging, and Labor Ready
Chapter 15 Labor Ready 2: it's a big job and it ends up like the tomato field.
Chapter 16 fleeing, and a soup kitchen. A wish, and fleeing again.
Chapter 17 Parking lot at K Mart.
Chapter 18: Parking lot again: meets Candelario.
after that I don't have changes in the outline except to add 1 to the number of each chapter. Which means 31 chapters times about 2790 words is 86516 words total, or 230 or so pages, which is about the size I want the book to be, not too loing, not too short.
But I finished Chapter 13 and things are a little different from where I thought they'd be right now. My guy started the chapter being shot at by the watchers, got away by stepping in front of a bystander's car and being dumped off at the emergency room at Valley Medical (thanks to my son I confirmed the geography around there and also checked out the type of injuries he should have to be exactly as messed up as I want him to be). And now at the end of the chapter he's being befriended by a Gothic young woman who wants to be a dental hygienist and artist, and she's about to show him how to forage for fruits and nuts along the streets of San Jose. She's not quite homeless -- she has a room in a house.
I haven't decided whether they'll have sex -- I think she wants to. But it's not what I brought her in for. Honestly, I brought her in to flesh out buying a pair of pants at the Salvation Army (there's one in exactly the right spot for my purposes, I'm so lucky), and then realized that she was the right person to do this other thing.
I have to revise my outline though.
Here's my count for now:
Chapter 1 2150
Chapter 2 3070
CHapter 3 2588
Chapter 4 2707
Chapter 5 2412
Chapter 6 3213
Chapter 7 3008
Chapter 8 2572
Chapter 9 3361
Chapter 10 2778 The Boss killed, and our guy captured, by Iuan's group
Chapter 11 2979 suffering at the hands of Ian
Chapter 12: trying to manipulate Ian's group 2305
Chapter 13: the watchers arrive: and the forager girl 3138
so far -- 36281 (97 pages!!!)
here's the next few chapters:
Chapter 14: foraging, and Labor Ready
Chapter 15 Labor Ready 2: it's a big job and it ends up like the tomato field.
Chapter 16 fleeing, and a soup kitchen. A wish, and fleeing again.
Chapter 17 Parking lot at K Mart.
Chapter 18: Parking lot again: meets Candelario.
after that I don't have changes in the outline except to add 1 to the number of each chapter. Which means 31 chapters times about 2790 words is 86516 words total, or 230 or so pages, which is about the size I want the book to be, not too loing, not too short.