Ping!

Middles are fun.

My WIP has been creaking along very slowly lately. Last night a bit of plot finally went Ping! and fell into place, and everything is moving forward again.

I had wondered if I were slogging because I was trying too hard to have the right events happen rather than just getting to the end. (I rewrite a lot, so in a sense, worrying about everything being correct is pointless. Even if I am sure it is correct now, I will have to rewrite it later anyway.) Or if I had gone off entirely in the wrong direction and was going to have to scrap some unspecified amount of story.

Luckily that isn't the case — there was a bit of plot I'd forgotten about (there are a million things going on at once in this book) and my subconscious was apparently worrying away at it before the rest of me had remembered it was there. So last night the subconscious figured it out and pinged me, and now I've picked up that lost plot thread, answered the question of why Segun is in hiding if no one knows he's guilty, tied some things from early part I into the rest of the plot, and drawn a few bits of part 2 together. Whew. My subconscious deserves some chocolate.

And then it should get back to work, figuring out how the smuggling thing fits into the rest of the book, what Kaite has to do with it, and just what was up with that spell, anyway.

And I get to write the first conversation Wren has with her mother since betraying her. Fun.

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