Update Link: You’re Not Sorry – Part 80

I didn’t manage my snow day update as promised because I had to shovel and, honestly, it’s like childbirth — you repress just how awful it is; otherwise, everyone would go live in Florida or something. I was really tired, and the timing never seemed to work out. We had a two hour delay, and if the universe is benevolent, that will be the end of the winter season. But who knows anymore.  We got around 15ish inches (NWS didn’t get any snow totals from us but some of our immediate neighboring towns got that much).

I did make good use of my time working on the plot sketch for You’re Not Sorry and I sort of have an ending in sight. In my original outline, I had a timeline in my head where an event that’s coming up around Part 91 would have been at Part 20 (lol) and would have been the midpoint. But we lost sight of that outline sometime in August (I think Part 11 is where it started to go off the plan) and that’s mostly because I was doing more legal research for Elizabeth as a federal case, so I got some ideas.

One of my favorite things to do is watch trials — in another life, I wanted to be a prosecutor like Jack McCoy, and something I was watching made me think about jurisdiction, and the next thing I knew, Molly was marching around trying to do interesting things, and well — and THEN Danny and Rocco were talking about a party and YOU GUYS wanted to know what would happen, so honestly — it’s sort of your fault because once I dug into the custody stuff I was like this would be a great way to work back around to Kristina, which it is, but it also changed my mind for how Sam would work in this story  — anyway — I let the story go where it wanted to go and now here we are.

The good news is that structurally, I sort of backed myself into a really well organized story. Act 1 is 13 parts and around 40k. Act 2, Part 1 is 81k across 30 parts and Act 2, Part 2 is around 81k and 32 parts which is perfect actually.  Act 2 neatly splits into pieces — each piece is 2x as long as Act 1 which makes sense. Act 1 — you set up your world and it ends when Kristina puts the frame in motion and Liz is arrested. Act 2, Part 1 complicates things — Liz’s arrest brings everything into chaos which ends up affecting the custody battle; Act 2, Part 2 has the protagonist (Kristina) looking at the situation with new eyes — she now sees Liz as an enemy to Sam, not just a pawn to get Jason to confess; and then Act 3 sees — well ha. That’s the part left to write. I started Act 3 with the Monday, Sep 30 updates.

I’ve outlined updates through Part 91 which, if I keep the Wed/Thur/Sat/Sun,we’ll be in mid March by then and I’m hoping I’ll able to ready to go into daily updates until the story is done. I’ll definitely know by then how many parts I’m going to need.

See you tomorrow 🙂

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