Progress Update 2: Observation
While it hasn't been nearly as quick of a process as I'd hoped (or really that a fully completed NaNoWriMo experience had set me up to expect), the next progress update is here! Observation is still in the works, and now just about twice as long as it was in the last update! I just passed the 33k mark and I've made some big changes to what I've written so far.
What's changed in the story that you don't know but might love?
- The majority of the main cast has been introduced and described earlier in the story
- Progress has been made past the initial instigating event
- Additional tension has been built throughout the story from different angles
- Relationships between characters have been shown more in real time
- More/updated outline, world building, and character information completed
In fact, Scrivener even has twice as many chapters now as it did in my previous update:
If my initial goal of a 90k story holds, I'm roughly 1/3 of the way there! We'll see how well I do holding to that word count since my last book that I shelved is sitting at about that mark and had at least another 30k to go based on my estimations (that I'm clearly not very good at making, so who knows how long in actuality). I'm sure I'll go over that number then edit down to something more closely resembling the expected length, but only time will tell.
I'm trying to edit as I go, meaning if I make a change at one point in the story, I go through the remainder of what's written and make sure that any references that now don't work or need to be added are handled when the change is fresh in my mind, though I will be doing a full edit through the book once I have the first draft completed.
For now, all I can do is keep making progress. From the few people I've shared the general plot with, it doesn't sound like it's a failure at the level at least! Hopefully I can share an excerpt or a small piece of world building or something sometime soon, we'll see how confident I am as time goes on. Either way, thanks for checking back in!
(Wondering how my art progress is going? Maybe I'll post an update at some point that gives some character art for reference on some of the personalities in the book! Definitely need some more progress on that creative endeavor beforehand, though!)