{smirk} Ask and ye shall receive, it seems.
Interleaving the two scenes from Protagonist 2's viewpoint, plus writing the final scene of the chapter, raked in 2112 words. I should put some Rush on to celebrate...
So! One chapter, six scenes, and 5618 words. Now, to plan the next chapter and let this sit so I can give it a first pass edit in a few days, ahead of handing it over to the tender mercies of my writing group.
For anyone wondering: the novel is sci fi adventure, set on one planet that is home to two disparate cultures: the descendants of a colonization attempt centuries in the past, who live at a tech level similar to the 18th century, and the survivors of an interstellar battle in the orbit of the same planet that took place ~40 years before. None of them can get off planet because the battle destroyed all craft capable of escape velocity (and no one from off planet has shown up looking for survivors)--but getting off planet is one protagonist's goal, which forms the long arc of the plot. It's probably going to be standard fare, though I'm hoping to play with gender roles along the way and, with Protagonist 1, offer something besides the usual tropes of "helpless" woman or "strong" female. I'm debating whether, and if so how, to work romance into it, given how much I enjoyed Sara Creasy's Scarabaeus novels.
Interleaving the two scenes from Protagonist 2's viewpoint, plus writing the final scene of the chapter, raked in 2112 words. I should put some Rush on to celebrate...
So! One chapter, six scenes, and 5618 words. Now, to plan the next chapter and let this sit so I can give it a first pass edit in a few days, ahead of handing it over to the tender mercies of my writing group.
For anyone wondering: the novel is sci fi adventure, set on one planet that is home to two disparate cultures: the descendants of a colonization attempt centuries in the past, who live at a tech level similar to the 18th century, and the survivors of an interstellar battle in the orbit of the same planet that took place ~40 years before. None of them can get off planet because the battle destroyed all craft capable of escape velocity (and no one from off planet has shown up looking for survivors)--but getting off planet is one protagonist's goal, which forms the long arc of the plot. It's probably going to be standard fare, though I'm hoping to play with gender roles along the way and, with Protagonist 1, offer something besides the usual tropes of "helpless" woman or "strong" female. I'm debating whether, and if so how, to work romance into it, given how much I enjoyed Sara Creasy's Scarabaeus novels.
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