WIP Wednesday

This week, what was going to be a minor subplot blossomed somewhat out of control into a major multi-chapter event. Meanwhile, I've still got a whole other mini-adventure that character group B has to undertake before the climax of the novel. All of this together means that Dyllan and Abigail is going to be considerably longer than my originally projected 100,000 words. Also, this draft is not going to be finished by my spring break (which started yesterday). I can only hope that I can cut out a lot of stuff in my first round of revisions—which, given the shifting focus of the book, I'm optimistic about. Yup.

This week: a continuation of last week's Daring Rescue, which turned out to be much more complex than I originally thought. 

Still to come: a complicated situation involving a group of changelings, a sojourn from Abernwyth to Earth, and (this being a child-friendly book) heroin addiction.

Random quote:  

“I—I was just going for a walk.” She licked her dry lips. “I was going for a walk and I saw the fire, so I came to see if you needed help putting it out,” she invented.

Ellena chuckled. “No, child. We must burn back the poisonweed before it reaches the circle. Enchanted fire is the only way to kill it.” As if to demonstrate, Ellena waved her tiny hand, directing the fire toward another clump of pale green tendrils dotted with white flowers.

Total word count:  84,003

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