Status update, now with fewer ponies

[stillsostrange]

I did more than make character ponies yesterday, I promise. Here is yesterday's wordcount as evidence.

Title Redacted Big Gay Hamlet
(It's only a loose interpretation of Big Gay Hamlet, but still. There's a ghost.)

Words yesterday: 797
Words total: 4656
Reason for stopping: end of scene/chapter

A couple of faithful beta-readers looked at the chapter yesterday and informed me that the pacing was wonky and it didn't have enough exposition. (Yes, I can actually under-exposit sometimes. They also said there wasn't enough setting.) Since I'm writing this for a proposal, draft cannot in fact suck, so I'll be going over this again to try to get it right.

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This week I also traded in my ancient-but-noble 1999 Honda Accord for a 2009 Civic. I felt bad abandoning the Accord at the farm dealership, but it's awfully exciting to have a modern car, that does modern things like play CDs and iPods. And accelerate without wheezing.

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Today is home inspection take two, having replaced all our smoke detectors. The old ones were nearly old enough to vote. Hopefully this will go more smoothly.

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[desperance.livejournal.com]

Karen also got a new car! Must be something in the air. Her old one was, um, 17? 18? Something like. And she'd had it from new...

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

I hate changing cars, however necessary it is. I feel like a traitor, every time.

[sovay]

Big Gay Hamlet

Yay!