Words Saturday: About 1,581. Total, for the novel: 17,600. I was able to write late last night, which is unusual for me. I likely had energy due to a late-afternoon nap. That's always dangerous, because it can keep me up much later than I like. But it was worth it, as I wrote an important scene.

That brings up an interesting writing point: I tend to write short chapters, and include a lot of them. Many other writers write fewer, but very long, chapters. I wonder if it makes a difference for readers? (and I'd be interested in your opinion on this, if you'd care to let me know.) It might be because of my background writing screenplays. These days, most movies have many scenes, and they're generally quite short. Over the years, that's what I've gotten used to. So now that I'm writing novels, I tend to break up each change of locale, for example, into a new chapter (equivalent to a new scene in a screenplay). It's required in screenplays, but not in novels.

I don't think it affect me as a reader, but I admit I'm not a normal reader (or normal in anything, for that matter).

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Hopefully, tonight/tomorrow will see the last snowfall of the season. Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, which means time for the snow to blow! We're expected to get little here, while to the south, folks will get more. It normally works the opposite, so it's nice to see us not bear the brunt for a change.