MOVIN' ON UP!
Do you know how many versions of Chapter Fourteen I've written over the last seven days? A lot. Fortunately I'm happy to report that the daily grind has paid off with a finished chapter, and a sense of rejuvenation at that. I have to admit that my commitment to writing a little bit every day, while helpful to my ultimate goal of finishing my novel, started to feel a lot more like a chore over the past week. I had what felt like a great opening to the chapter, but when I followed it to it's conclusion, I realized that it just wouldn't work, and had to archive that version somewhere else and start over. Who knows, I might be able to work it in somewhere else. Speaking of following the story to its conclusion, I do want to give an update about the overall story block I mentioned in my last post, namely that I figured it out. Mostly. Really, in my brainstorming, I discovered a way to integrate some characters from earlier in the book into this later half in a meaningful