I'm currently on Chapter 3, after finishing Chapter 2 on Monday. Things are currently building to my inciting incidents nicely, but not easily.
Tuesday I didn't get to 1,667, petering out at around 1,500 words. The scene was just spinning in circles, and it hit a couple of points I needed it to, but it just wasn't working. So, I called it a night and decided to let the little bits of extra from preceeding days soak it up.
I was content to let the bad scene alone until, laying in bed, I realized I had missed a major event that needed to happen in that scene. A character who needed to be instructed to do something wasn't even present.
So yesterday I went back and tweeked the scene, adding the missing character and making it work more toward what it needed to do. It gained words instead of losing them, so it's a win in my book.
Then I had a nice scene with one of the protagonists stuck in a car with the antagonist. Ended up being pretty interesting, and hints of crossing backstory reared their head.
Total word count: 24,202
Suggested word count for 14 days: 23,338
Today is the middle of the road. 25k by the end of the night or bust. Realistically, hopefully we can be at 26k.
How about a little intimidation this time:
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