Had a whole day off instead of half a day, excitingly, due to the kid going to a holiday camp rather than school. I was going to be so productive!
...yeah, didn't quite work out that way, mostly because after lunch I got so goddamn sleepy I needed an hour-long nap, so there wasn't much afternoon time left.
Anyway. I did more of chapter 12 before lunch, essentially laying down the structure like I have for the other chapters, writing some connective bits and seeing if it works. On the one hand, it's definitely going to be a shorter chapter than the rest. On the other hand, the ending hits so much better now I've split it up, so seems like I'm going to keep it this way, then. I even worked a bit on the start of chapter 13, which I am going to need to ponder a bit more, cause structure-wise it's still weird.
So after lunch and naptime I went back to the start and specifically chapter 3 (the fluff chapter), which in retrospect wasn't the best idea. That one is essentially finished, so it doesn't really need anything beyond fleshing out (heh) all the sex scenes, which I have to be in a specific mindset for. Still fun to read, obviously, but I wasn't really adding anything. I realised this basically half an hour before I had to leave to go pick up the kid, so I quickly skipped ahead to chapter 5 for a bit, played around there with a couple of scenes until time was up.
Either way, chapter 5 is the first one that needs actual work, so I'm thinking next time I have a few interrupted hours to write (which, with the holidays I'm not entirely sure when that'll be), that will be what I'll focus on.
Also : going from chapter 12-13 straight back to 3 is a fucking whiplash. TToD is essentially just Jim gradually getting all of his layers of lies and deceit and denial slowly peeled away one by one, so to go from the last few chapters where everything is raw and bare and open straight to the start of where he's still all I'm fine this is fine everything can go back to normal now is like reading two entirely different characters.
I still feel a bit adrift, when it comes to my planning. Like I should be putting in more work beforehand on hard plot and related things. From last time I remember that plot ideas mostly happen either A) randomly or B) when I'm doing a big organic readthrough, but even so. Having the framework all laid out should in theory make the writing easier, but in practice writing vague structural things is a lot less intense than actually writing out the concrete scenes.
Other non-related thought: was reminded randomly of the huge Untamed Fic I spent a year or two on before I got back to FIF. From what I remember, it's basically finished, there were just some minor things there that bothered me. I think I want to publish it at some point, I am proud of it, but I'm not sure how much time I still want to pour in it. In an ideal word, I'd import it in Scrivener and give it the same kind of attention as I did with Fif, but the fact is that I don't have unlimited time and when it comes to priorities, I'd rather focus on TToD right now. So, idk. Maybe a project to do when the full TToD draft is done, or when I'm stuck, as a distraction? Or I could just throw it on AO3 as-is without even proofreading, but, yikes. I don't think I have reached that level of non-perfectionism yet.
Anyway, according to Scrivener I wrote approximately 4000 words today, which isn't bad. Some of it was copied from my note-taking doc, of course, but definitely the majority was entirely new. So, not entirely a day wasted. Once again I can't really post anything from chapter 12 or 13 because spoilers, so have something from chapter 3 that made me snort when I reread it :
“We’re running out of supplies again,” Jim says, as he goes through the cupboards after lunch.
“Thought so, yeah,” Sebastian says. “Barely got anything out of the lube bottle, thought I would have to take you with—”
“For food,” Jim says, pointedly. “And some new clothes for you, as well.”
“Do I need them?”
Jim looks over his shoulder. “I’ve torn at least two of your shirts the last few days.”
“Oh, yeah.”
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