Lost in her Eyes Chapter 6

Just a bit of a ramble. I'll be posting chapter 6 tomorrow unless things go horribly wrong, after a reread without cobwebs in my brain.

I wrote chapter 6 by my original plan, but I wasn't entirely happy with it, so I went back over it and tweaked it a bit. It still wasn't quite up to snuff, so I went back over it again, and this time I added a little scene. But the little scene was so fun, I added a bit more ... and a bit more ... and a bit more! And then that little scene was a not-insignificant change to my planned plot, and that little scene is in fact the entirety of chapter 6 (having concluded the bit of story I wanted to get across in my usual ~2,000 words for this fic[1]). Much of what I'd written for chapter 6 is moot, and what isn't will get pushed into chapter 7. Except for the first ten words ( ;) ), this was all written today, but some of what will be chapter 7 was written in the two weeks before.

So yeah, there's that. I'm completely off the rails now, I have no more idea what's going to happen next than you do. Obviously when I'm writing a story with a completely arbitrary restraint that already makes things a bit quirky, the best idea is to go hog-wild and write off the cuff.

I am a very stupid writer. Good thing it's not my vocation.

Oh, and as I always put at the end of these, sorry for the spam for what turns out to be just a boring ol' blog post :)

[1]: I'm obviously very tired if I feel like ranting this, but I know I have a very terse writing style. Knowing is one thing, repairing is another. Part, perhaps most of why I'm writing these is to work on that. In this story I'm restricting myself to one perspective per chapter (i.e., only one character's state of mind is known, all others are only seen through her perspective, without an omniscient narrator), which tends to make things even shorter, at least by my reckoning. In my opinion, however, that reads better for this kind of story.