Having work stay two hours over every day this week and once again, planning a D&D session pretty much killed my productivity for the week. I did get to write today (2500 words), and it's still pretty early so I'm hoping for 3 or 4k by the end of the night.
A weakness I have as a writer, I think, at least in this book, is that characters are changing rather than developing. I'll have to go and look at it as a whole once I finish, but I feel like rather than tangible things happening and the characters responding to them and it influencing them (ie development), they're more just acting out of character. How they are acting makes sense to ME, but their changed outlook needs more focus, I think. I'm going to get a few people to beta read when I finish my first draft, so maybe I'll have some input there.
EDIT: I upped the word count by another 2500. Part of it came from a section I had written in a separate document coming into play, and the rest was additional writing.
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