So, friday was a mess in terms of writing.
Saturday wasn't much better. As I know I've mentioned before, two of my main characters jumped out a seventh story window. This led me to the unavoidable question of "Okay, so how do they not die?" Funny thing that I learned in highschool physics.... people who fall out seventh story windows tend to die. Yeah, there are the weird exceptions that you hear about (a toddler falling 7 floors and only getting a couple scrapes, a window washer falling 50 floors and getting some cracked ribs) but by and large... when you swan dive seven stories, you become the the consistency of chili.
So Saturday morning I was stuck trying to determine how in the name of god these people were going to survive. Guess I should have thought of that earlier. I posted on facebook and got a ton of joke answers, but a couple of people offered some valid suggestions. Theres one I'm genuinely thinking about, but it requires some revisions, which I can't do at this point, because the scene before it needs a different tone or what could be a grim savior might seem like a joke.
Anyway, I spent all morning on it, and still had to come home and crank out 300 words after the rest of my day happened.
Sunday was easier. Thank god.
Sunday was easy because I found myself rewriting a scene I'd written back in like February. I absolutely loved the scene, so it proved exceedingly easy to just kind of look over the original draft of it once and then pound out a new version that hit on most of the same points, but also expanded into some others. I really needed the easiness of yesterday.
Anyway, here's the tally:
Word Count between Saturday and Sunday: 3,447
Total Word Count: 19,138
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