and the insight that this Chapter 3 business is kind of a minefield of not knowing. And that’s okay. I know approximately how to end it, and I will work on getting there, getting the ball into the endfield, however clumsily. Flags on the play are okay.

writing and it is hard to keep writing once I start. Which is harder? My writing concentration muscles are weak. Doing it for about an hour (which isn’t even writing that whole time, a lot of it is spent goofing off) is about my limit at the moment. I would like to make my writing muscles stronger. I would like to practice having the thought to google something and not acting on it. I would like to practice not obsessively checking my word count in Scrivener during the writing process. I would like done or not done for the day…