Today’s group was a robust group of seven (though no painting was attempted). This was all the more surprising given that it was a rare day, both mild and sunny. Early spring-like, even.
For some reason, the group was especially chatty today (not a problem as I can always don earbuds and type away to my terrible taste in music if I want to avoid distraction). We only had the room for two hours, after which we migrated to the main area of the shop. We shed one person and the remaining six pushed three tables together to reconvene. We actually got much quieter, possibly because the whine of machinery making fancy 750 calorie drinks made regular conversation that much more challenging.
I didn’t do a lot of writing, as expected, but busied myself nipping and tucking bits of Road Closed and finishing up organizing the chapters so I have a better feel for the overall story as it now stands. I’m going to have to make a few big decisions before I continue writing or else resign myself to a massive rewrite instead of a merely big one.
I also spent some time organizing a few of my other unfinished novels (ie. all of them), so while I didn’t bang out a lot of words I still came away feeling I’d made good use of the time.