Fic progress
2 July 2023 02:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
igenlodeI have actually been doing some typing on Ch13 of Hertha, trying to fix the horrifyingly paralysing issue of the gunshot in the flashback, the prospect of tackling which had kept me from so much as touching the manuscript for six months; I've succeeded in introducing a couple more allusions to the sound of the shot and pushed more bits of Hertha's narrative into the grammatically less ambiguous past-perfect tense as a result, which I think has *probably* patched the perceived problem sufficiently, although I shall need to run the result past somebody to check (probably meibruges again!) However, I have perhaps inevitably ended up starting work on this past midnight every day, due to chronic procrastination -- the only reason why I have got round to it at all, really, is that I have now reached a stage where all the *other* tasks queued up are those that feel even less inviting, so that this now becomes an escape mechanism rather than a thing to be escaped.
(It currently looks as if Ch13 is going to come out at around 6,000 words, which is a lot, but not actually any more than the existing Chapter 7 and Ch4...)
meibruges again!) However, I have perhaps inevitably ended up starting work on this past midnight every day, due to chronic procrastination -- the only reason why I have got round to it at all, really, is that I have now reached a stage where all the *other* tasks queued up are those that feel even less inviting, so that this now becomes an escape mechanism rather than a thing to be escaped.(It currently looks as if Ch13 is going to come out at around 6,000 words, which is a lot, but not actually any more than the existing Chapter 7 and Ch4...)
| 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" | 6061 |
| Ch8: "Why So Silent, Good Messieurs?" | 5105 |
| Ch9: "Well-Beloved Wife" | 4242 |
| Ch10: "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" | 3616 |
| Ch11: "You Betrayed Me" | 4845 |
| Ch12: "I Need to See the End" | 3502 |