November was a busy month for me. I was part of a running group training for a 5k race, work was crazy, there's Thanksgiving, and, of course, it's NaNoWriMo month.
This year's book The Right To Do Magic is a sequel to last year's book. It's police procedural with Bernadine Cart returning to save the city from a killer who's targetting magic users.
I used Scrivner again for this book. It does a great job, but there are a few features I wish it had or I wish I knew how to use. The biggest one was timelines. The story involves multiple characters or parties and their evolving knowledge of the situation. Keeping track of who knows what and when was monstrous. They were all making different assumptions and taking action based on their view of the world, which was inherently limited. Keeping all that in my head was just awful. Honestly, it's like badly written source code with no documentation. I just had to know that in this scene Bernie knows this but it's wrong because of that. Ugh! Maddening!
Like with most of my NaNoWriMo novels, some parts just flowed. The characters felt right and the dialog and their actions just worked. Other parts were painful to write. I don't know if it was just where I was mentally when I wrote it or if I was forcing the story down a path it didn't naturally go. One of these days, I'm going to write a story that's not limited to 30 days and see how that goes. :)