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I didn't actually spend much time writing today, maybe half an hour. I think I've figured out how to add more action at the beginning, so it's not just meetings and talking about politics. (Which I don't think is terribly dull inherently, but it's also not the most exciting thing ever. CJ Cherryh gets away with it for the first ~third of Inheritor, but a) it's the third book in a trilogy, and b) she's CJ Fucking Cherryh, and I'm not.)
Things I've learned recently:
1. Sahar has an old friend who's part of a radical autonomy front, who's also a hacker.
2. There's another POV character from a merchant ship, but I know nothing about her. At all. Seriously. Except that she witnesses the action that I just discovered.
3. I've identified my first casualty, and it makes me sad, because I like him.
4. I have a good backstory reason (that isn't even retcon) for the Hessians to be hired in Iron & Rust.
I didn't actually spend much time writing today, maybe half an hour. I think I've figured out how to add more action at the beginning, so it's not just meetings and talking about politics. (Which I don't think is terribly dull inherently, but it's also not the most exciting thing ever. CJ Cherryh gets away with it for the first ~third of Inheritor, but a) it's the third book in a trilogy, and b) she's CJ Fucking Cherryh, and I'm not.)
Things I've learned recently:
1. Sahar has an old friend who's part of a radical autonomy front, who's also a hacker.
2. There's another POV character from a merchant ship, but I know nothing about her. At all. Seriously. Except that she witnesses the action that I just discovered.
3. I've identified my first casualty, and it makes me sad, because I like him.
4. I have a good backstory reason (that isn't even retcon) for the Hessians to be hired in Iron & Rust.
