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November 18, 2005

Secret Museum

Today was a good day. I felt bad about falling behind my quota yesterday, so I really worked hard today and caught myself back up. Wednesday I wrote nothing but backstory. About 20 pages of it. Yet, the story stayed at its page count. I didn't let that bother me, because that backstory was very, very, necessary.

Thursday (yesterday) I wrote five more pages of backstory, and five of the actual book. My self-appointed quota is ten pages a day toward final page count. If I fall a page or two short on a given day, fine. But ten pages is what I would like to do each day.

Because Thursday I only wrote five pages toward my final page count, I wrote 15 today. So it's been quite a day. But I am very happy about getting through chapters 7 and 8. They were very important chapters. And now I've set things up to move forward for a while, before I have to slow down and do some handiwork to connect areas or develop the next turning point. I think tomorrow I'll work on a rough sketch of what happens in each chapter. Very rough. Usually I stop at the start of each chapter and think out what needs to happen and how, looking back at what was promised by Act I, and what needs to happen by the end of Act III. I have yet to do a rough of each chapter all at once. But since I'm approaching the halfway mark, I think I want to do that.

joaquín ramón herrera writes for children, adults, and other humans found elsewhere in the continuum of development. He is also an illustrator, musician, and surprise protagonist. If you have found his glasses, wallet, or keys, please contact him here.

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