Update: Progress despite it all

You know how much time I spent following the news in January? Zero time. Maybe five minutes per week, which rounds down to zero.

You know how much time I spent following the news last week? Probably at least an hour a day.

My fondest wish is for a completely boring life in which nothing happens. I don’t want to live in interesting times! Ugh!

Despite this, I did make substantial progress on Silver Circle. Another chapter went long, got split in two, and thus the total number of chapters went up. However, I also thought, “You know what, I don’t think I need this current chapter 52,” and deleted it (unwritten, thankfully), which brought the total number of chapters back down. Therefore, the full thing is still sitting at 54 chapters plus an epilogue.

I should be completing the current chapter this afternoon. (Easily! I think it needs just a couple of paragraphs to tie it up and lead into the next chapter.) This is one of Alejandro’s chapters. He thought he was going to be doing something important, but he has just discovered crucial information and is now making rapid decisions to ditch that and do something else instead.

Then a short chapter that sets up part of the climax. I hope this will be ten pages or so.

Then there’s a chapter which, right at the moment, is the penultimate chapter. I expect this chapter to switch rapidly between three different points of view, all braided together in the same chapter, but I won’t know for sure if that’s the way it really happens until I write it. This is all part of the climax. I think this will be thirty pages or so.

Then the last chapter, simpler, which is the actual climax and resolution. I think this will be maybe twenty pages or so.

Then, the very important epilogue, which will contain all the gentler things that tie up the whole story and show that the resolution is holding and the world has come past a crisis and wound up, probably permanently, in a better place. (I trust that does not strike anyone as a spoiler.) I’m thinking of this as maybe twenty pages, but it wouldn’t surprise me if it goes longer, because there’s quite a bit to tie up. I really like my idea for how to handle this part. This is the Ice Cream Epilogue that I’m very deliberately holding up as the reward for getting through everything else between here and there.

There’s a little more about how Silver Circle looks right now over at my Patreon — it’s a public post, so if you want to know about how much pov space each pov character is getting, click over there.

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