Juggernaut

Yesterday I was mighty. Yes, very mighty indeed. Today I was foiled by Borders and it's lack of tables, which I'll cover in another post I have in mind, but yesterday I was unstoppable. Perhaps I was bolstered by a wave of good vibrations, but whatever it was, the words flowed like warm honey out of a jar onto a nice piece of toast. Let's hit it.

I picked up in Chapter 5 a good ways into the opening scene, which is Kelly and Alyssa. The scene picks up roughly twenty minutes after Chapter 4 concludes, IF you know what I mean, wink wink nudge nudge. There's a shit-ton of material covered in the conversation that follows, and some foreshadowing, and some stuff that you aren't supposed to notice thrown out there right under your nose ... all of which has to be done very carefully so that it doesn't look like I'm doing anything out of the ordinary. I burned through the end of that scene no problem.

I then figured I'd at least start the next scene, which is the big confrontation between Kelly and Kim in his apartment. Everything was clicking so well I didn't want to stop, so I didn't stop, and that scene is in the can. The chemistry between those two is so good that I almost have to bring back Kim for an encore somewhere, if I can figure out how and where to do it without the scene feeling gratuitious. There's a small bit with Milo that I love, too. And I'd forgotten all about the harsh way that Kim lights into Kelly when she finally loses her temper, which cuts pretty deep. That was cool.

Then I figured I'd at least get the next scene rolling, which is Ben and Kelly at the Diner discussing the aftermath of both those scenes. And everything was clicking along so well still that I put down about 2/3 of the scene. All that remains to finish there is the discussion of the new girl that Ben met a week or two back, which he mentioned in their first scene.

Once I do that, it's onto the main event of Chapter 5, and Kelly meets Emma for the first time. That's a long, important scene, which will require a lot of concentration, so I think I should head to the bookstore pretty early tomorrow. I just have to get one of the tables along the wall. But one way or another, I'm going to do some writing.

That'll wrap up not only Chapter 5, but also Season One of the book, which means I can start assembling those packages. I already wrote my mom an e-mail and got a great response back, and she's in for some reading. I haven't yet written that last person on my list, but that's on the agenda for this week. And I know Guinevere should be getting pretty impatient by now, since I ended up making her and the book club wait a little longer than planned.

Writing is going well. Very well.