Day 25 was 1,818 words.
Low word count for a Saturday, but still the best day all week... since it was a pretty crappy week. The weekly total wound up being 7,445 where usually I'm over 20k.
The day's additions included some backstory I kept meaning to incorporate -- which I've done in summary form, via the MC reflecting on the information as she reads through it. And then I have a credulity-breaking moment when the house shifts floor planks to slow the MC from warning her brother who she realizes has somehow entered the world, and wants him to keep the house's door open so they can stay in the yard. I'd completely forgotten (at first) that the sitting room was open to the foyer (which I might change). Granted, the foyer might be big enough to have a blind spot, so... that's my excuse for now. And if I catch flack for it when I try to beta the scene, I might even have him spot her struggling and miss the door swinging shut behind him.
No progress on proofing RRWARB. And, during the somewhat unproductive late session, I was starting to once again wonder if I should take a break from drafting for a while and then establish a different writing & editing routine down the road. Just random stuff to consider.
Oh, and I started to try to do that RRWARB reinvention as a short story (after first thinking about it as a MG). Not 100% sure it'll work as a short story given the way the narrative shifts... although I think I like the idea of writing it as a short story which could simultaneously work as an outline. And, oddly enough, some of the elements might be more unnerving than the YA version. The other issue with the MG is I'm not sure it works with the character age, since I'd need to set the MC at 10-12 which is likely too old to be that entertained by puppets.
Kind of the fun part of using a notebook... although I guess laptops kinda work, too, but I'm more careful with laptops
