Outline progresses to 36 scenes.

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Scene count now at 36 and the novel estimated length up to 58k. I had been worried it would run short because of the single POV. I now worry it has the potential to run too long. *Sigh* Never satisfied, that's me. The good news is that I'm toward the end of the second part of the book. Her time with the "good" master is about to come to an end.

I was giving my husband the synopsis of the book and he picked up the underlying threads that should be largely invisible to the main character but I'm hoping I do as good a job of cluing in the reader as I did my husband. If so, I can maintain the single POV as I want but at the same time have the reader aware of the twisted tangle that is her life even as she struggles with the part she sees. Ugh. Why can't I write something fluffy and simple?

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A friend of mine once asked me if I thought I could ever write for, say, Sesame Street. My response was, "I doubt it. Bert and Ernie would be gay and then Bert would wind up having his mind controlled by Big Bird, who turns out to be an insane figment of Mr. Snuffleupagus's imagination and Ernie, searching for the truth of what happened to his lover, would accidentally conjure up the ghost of Mr. Hooper. And things would just kind of go downhill from there."

I too have wondered if I could ever write something nice and fluffy which doesn't involve insanity at some level. The closest I've come is my short-short "The Divergents". And that's only five hundred words long.

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I've got some short stories that are less tangled but very few that are truly straightforward :). They almost always have some element that is twisted or philosophical.