First twelve pages

My, that doesn't sound like very much, does it, but I have been on 'vacation' and also doing other things. Rick read these first twelve pages this morning and liked them better than any of my previous work. It's nice to know my novel-writing skills might be getting better.

The next cluster of scenes is set in the Taverna Mediterranea and after writing just a tiny bit, I had to go off and research interiors for places such as I envision the Taverna Mediterranea to be. Unfortunately, I found very little on the web I liked, but captured several images anyway and will simply have to design my own setting. Most of a day spent on research for narrative that will probably take only an hour to write! Oh well!

I wonder how much of this was just avoidance of a rather intense interplay of characters coming up. In the first twelve pages, I developed the leading characters and in this next scene the three main ones will meet and interact. The fur will fly. A 'pissing contest' will take place between the hero and the villain, which will be a lot of fun if I can portray it properly -- did write some of that narrative today.

I am sure glad I have an annotated outline already built. It is working out so well to be able to write by a script, but yet it's not locking me into predetermined ideas, as I feared it might. For example, today I modified the next scene to not have Jack there and instead work the scene from Ravi's thoughts. I think that will be more effective.