First I wrote four pages from Lorelen's POV, and they sucked, and I knew they sucked, but I really had to stop when I noticed that no one in the fucking room was reacting to the fact that someone just got killed in front of them.
So I went back, and I wrote a few dialogue-heavy scenes about the first two murders, and then there were some alchemists, and in a little while I shall get back to that original first scene, and maybe this time the stupid characters will start screaming or something. One can only hope.
It is getting a bit annoying to establish rank, though. The first several words of the book at this juncture are "Acting Supreme Dedicate Lorelei of the Temple of Visions..." I mean, good God.
But other than the need to go back and add a bit more action, it is going quite well now that I know what I'm doing, almost.
And Mia, the German exchange student, came over to Amy's as well on Friday, and she is so totally awesomely awesome like an awesome thing. She's read Pratchett books, she'd never had s'mores before...she's fun.