About 2,000 words and two chapters away from hitting the mid-point of the novel. I'm feeling pretty good about the general story and how it moves. I'm less in love with the specifics, as I still think there's way too much exposition. At least I know about the static scenes. When I do the rewrite, I'm going to go through with an eye to making the long exposition scenes a little more active. I need to build up some more tension in the scenes. I think there's potential in the last two chapters I worked on, but I needed to hammer out some important story and character beats first. I'm hoping to get to mid-point by the end of the week. I'd like to have a first draft finished before I go on vacation in mid-August. I think I can pull it off without having to work too hard. As long as I don't fall off my pace of 1,000 words a day, I should be fine.
I hit my quota for the day, and now I have to head off to run a workshop. After that, I'm going to swelter in the summer heat.
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