SM4200: Here and Now

A week since I posted, and not a lot to show for it. The chapter stands at 25127 words and I'm probably going to throw some of that away.

I'm working on the "big fight scene", and so far, little that I've written is gelling. It's flat and uninteresting. A lot of the trouble is that, besides there needing to be a combat scene here, I have no particular plans for the scene. My visualisation of what happens is so nebulous that it's almost impossible to get anything done at all.

(I said there "needs" to be a fight scene. Two reasons. One is that there simply hasn't been one for a while; while there was technically an attack in chapter 10, it was only mentioned, not described. Also, there is an important plot point to be established around the combat, though not in the combat itself.)

Meanwhile ... it's five PM on a glorious, sunny Saturday — sunny but cold; it's mid-Winter here — and I've been out for most of the day. We'll see if I get anything done this evening. :)