Unfortunately, I ended up having a middling week this week, coming in at about 4,600 words out of my 7,000 word goal. The primary problem was actually writing this week, though. I had long known I had a problem with Niamsha’s plot line throughout the book and it was top of my editing priority list. However, given that I am just shy of 120k into this draft, I wanted to finish the draft before addressing that problem. But on Thursday, I got stuck. She needs to be active through the last third or so of the book, but she had spent a couple chapters being understandably passive and I didn’t know how to get her moving again.

After two days of barely writing and trying to get something figured out, I think I have it now. After all, she has been unusually passive because of the actions of other characters, and she is surely chafing at that as much as I am. I know what she would do in response and how that’s going to play into the larger story. Unfortunately, that solution came to me this morning, not last night, so I didn’t have time to implement it. But I have it for this coming week!

Here’s the updates from the week’s writing that did get done.

Saylina finally made a new ally in her political schemes… maybe, if their goals really alignArkaen got himself in charge of a group planning to strike back at their enemiesMy current word count total for the draft is 118k

Not quite as much in my accomplishments as I had wanted for the week, but like I said…Niamsha really threw me for a loop. Talk to you all next week!