Fic progress

I'm stuck (again) on Arctic Raoul because I need to re-order the start of the next chapter so that it doesn't start with a sentence or two in the 'present day' and then spend half its length in a massive flashback with scene dividers etc. before picking up the present conversation again... which wouldn't *inherently* be a problem, provided only that the reader was able to pick up on the intended chronological structure, which, as I suspected myself on re-reading, is apparently not the case. Only I don't know how to do the rearrangement.

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I am also still stuck on typing up chapter 7 of "High City on a Hill", which is clearly going to be another six-thousand-word chapter; it feels incredibly long already, although in fact I'm only just over five thousand words in. Mainly this is because we've already had the introduction of the new setting at Beauvais, the introduction of the pregnancy material, the whole birthday party episode, and then Hertha's visit back to Paris, with a Hertha/Raoul scene still to come -- I keep wondering if I ought to split it into two chapters, and coming back to the conclusion that this just isn't an option. ( Read more... )

Chapter lengths:
Ch1: "Can it be Christine?"	3551
Ch2: "We Can Make it Work"	4754
Ch3: "As if Awoken from a Dream"	3914
Ch4: "She Won't Thank You For It"	6078
Ch5: "An Accident... Simply an Accident"	4480
Ch6: "He'll Stop at Nothing"	5402
Ch7: "It Will Be At Midsummer"	5166 so far