The Writing Thing

Today was a good day. It was also a day out of the ordinary as I pretty much did almost everything I wanted to do today. I'll never do *everything* I want to do in a day, because I have a tendency to load up too many things on the to-do list and then get disappointed because I only get through maybe half of them, if that. There's no hope that'll ever get better, because I've been like this since I was ten years old. So, a day where I do 'almost everything' tends to be a very good day indeed.

The highlight, of course, was getting some quality writing done. I just wrapped a scene that's been dogging me for quite a while now, and that's a good thing. It's a complicated Kelly, Emma, Alyssa scene that not only plays out what's happening right then, but jumps back a few days to revisit the first scene of the chapter between Kelly and Emma, and also jumps back a few weeks to show an important conversation between Kelly and Alyssa. Well, it's important in that it sets up what happens in the next chapter ... when everything starts to hit the wall.

The next scene is one I'm eager to get into. It's another Kelly and Ben at the Diner scene, which also brings back Leah, introduces Kelsie, and does a whole bunch of business as well. It also serves to set up what happens both in the final scene of the chapter and the next chapter, too. There's a lot of tension in it between Kelly and Ben, as Ben might know something that he doesn't want to tell Kelly, and Kelly tries to pull it out of him anyway. That's on tomorrow's docket.

For today, though, mission accomplished.