Musings on the swedish story

Plot point twelve finished! (In the middle of a chapter; my chapter boundaries are all over the place.)

I've now reached the middle of my second A4 ledger — 42 pages @ 500 words = another 21,000 words — and doubt I'm going to be able to reach the end of the plot before the end of the book, given that it's taken me all those 21,000 words to cover the last three plot points and I still have another five to go. (Admittedly there were four thousand words or so of replacement voyage-chapter in there; I find it rather disturbing that it took me a couple of months to write that one chapter of 'action', but that I subsequently managed to spend three chapters on angst/fluff for plot point 12, one chapter of which was spent just getting the characters onto the train in Paris.)( Read more... )