On the Road to Recovery

Passed the 30K mark today. It went quickly - I started writing the other "side" of the story, which is weird, because in theory, it's the part that requires a certain amount of research, but I think it's ok if I wing it for now. The details in that regard aren't really important except that they set the stage for what the main character's doing.

I think it's weird, because right now, I did a huge marathon on the "Game" side of the equation, and now I'm doing a big chunk on the "Politics" side of the equation. Ideally, the two will have merged more smoothly, and you'll get a better sense of what kind of person this guy is more gradually, instead of HERE'S A! NOW HERE'S B! But I can't write like that in the first pass anyway, so it'll have to be a little clunkier, because I want to get coherent thoughts out, not interweave a complex narrative. That's the sort of thing that I think happens more in the editing process - this pass is to get the ideas out there.

So, it's sort of strange, because last year, even though there were parts that were crap, it sort of read in the order I imagined it ought to. This year, it's definitely *not* reading as I imagined it might. The "real" way it should be is much more A/B/A/B, instead of ALL A/ALL B.

We'll see how it turns out.