Well I’m still about 8K behind, but catching up.  It’s only 8K because I haven’t made a dent on today’s word count yet.  Once I’m done writing for the day, I’ll be a lot further.

I’m not falling behind so that’s a win.   I’ll be stepping up from my daily 2K quota a little, just to be safe.  I plowed ahead yesterday even if I still did not have a clear plan.

A friend suggested writing a scene where my characters talk.  Talk to each other or just talking, either way sounded good to me.  It inspired me.  I ended up writing 2500 words with my two main characters trapped in a room together.  I figured I could use it somewhere later in the book.  Even if the scene ended up being cut during editing, my friend’s suggestion was that it would allow my characters to speak and let me get a handle on them and perhaps that would help.

It was enough to get me writing again.

Something interesting happened.

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