NaNo draft done!
It is clocking it at 81,160 words.
Next steps
1) Take a break, write some fan fic. (
btfchallenge & jukebox_fest and maybe write some gratuitous Bucky because it has been a while.) 2) print the beast out. Figure out where I need
- more character work (there is a whole host of secondary characters that I found I needed as I was writing this thing)
- more worldbuilding work
3) Plan a re-write
-Right now the thing is 80k with no chapter breaks. Look at where natural breaks occur. Look at where I can outright delete stupid stuff. Look at what I need that doesn't exist yet.
- re-write the whole thing, this time working scene by scene, chapter by chapter
Here is the last scene:
There was a knock and she looked up. Madison was standing in the door to her room, wearing the dark red-orange uniform of a crew member of dispatch and control. Like Skylar she had no dots on her collar. “Ready?” Madison asked.
Skylar shook her head, “No,” she said, but she tossed the tablet aside and stood up anyway. The drop was slightly less than it had been on the planet and she constantly felt like she was about to lift off.
“Let’s go,” Madison said.
“I’m sorry you had to wait so long to get your dot,” Skylar said. “You should have made crew weeks ago.”
Madison shrugged. “Operator and scout always go together,” Madison said. “Unless…” Madison didn’t say it, but they both knew that sometimes the young scouts died before taking their oath. “I’m just glad you are here to stand with me,” Madison said. “I am glad I waited.”
“Me too,” Skylar said. “Me too.”