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Another day where I could use about half of the existing story, but I can already see the motivations and the plot complications altering the original.  This is good, though.  Stuff that works in a short story doesn’t always work in a novel.  Besides, this is how you learn.

Also, this is where Frozen Dreams gets a little more complicated for me.  I need to start adding secondary characters, a subplot or two, and a good deal more action.  Why, there’s only been one fight scene so far!  And in a pulp detective story, too. Tsk, tsk…

What with revisions, by the way, this is only a close approximation.  I do go back and add a word here, change a phrase there.  But it doesn’t affect much.

Today: almost 1,900 words, and almost 7,000 total.  I’ve gotten to the end of Chapter 2.  And these were all original bits, too!  Got a complication and a minor character introduced, which is nice.

A little over quota! We are at 10% written (although 50,000 words is a little short for a novel these days, right?).  And I have an action bit coming up, which is going to be nice.  Can’t decide whether this should be before the chapter break, or afterward.  Not really sure how big the chapters should be, either.

I think that we hit a good point for the end of the first chapter, too: our hero has gone to the crime seen and just met the chief suspect.  It seems a natural stopping point.  1,639 words today, for a total of 3,316, and the recycling of previous bits from “Frozen Out In Cin City” will have to cease for a few days.  I have to add some more characters, flesh out the ones introduced so far, and all that other fun stuff.  I really should have done this as a novel from the start, but at least I know how the blessed thing ends, and how the hero got there.