trying to keep everything from happening at once (407 words)

There is so much work I have to do in this section. It all has to happen in the right order. The pacing has to be right. I think I need to change the timeline here so that there's more time to develop the chain of events.
( boring details for my own purposes, really )

I'm resigned to writing more slowly for a while, while I struggle through this complexity. The vignette and chapter after this one are both easier, and then there's a vignette I'm less sure of, and a chapter that gave me a lot of problems before, and a vignette I can't wait to write, and not just because it's the end of the book. See. It's all doable, it's comprehensible, it can be held within the bounds of a human mind.

more revelations (795 words)

I'm stopping for the day. I have other things to do and the nice fellow will be hoime soon, which is my marker for enough time spent in front of the computer.

I did considerably more work than the numbers show. I've been wrestling more with those strands, and I suddenly remembered the "nobody's cousin" trope that was so important before and I had to go back and insert it. Anyway, off I go.