Chapter 2: Vroom vroom

4,314 and growing. Waking bright and early never appealed to me when I was younger. Now that sleep's less of a deal (and coffee works just dandy, thank you very much), creativity seems to flow well at this hour. At least so long as I can keep stringing the first part of my story along without too many characters plot tangles.

I'm fighting my poetic urges to write sparingly yet flaringly (sorry!). More description, more thinking, more fabric to the story without descending into infodump. I had my first experience trying to put in some Thippah'n language, and ended up just bracketing the sentence in English and figuring I'll come back to it later. It should work out to a similar word count.

I seem to have also decided to do a single chapter in a day, or at a sitting (I hope to write more before hitting the election news tonight). 2-3 thousand words a day seems to be about the right size for a chapter, at least until I start getting into the historical vignettes and other stuff.

Need to get more erotic juice into the thing; no Thippah on scene in Chapter Two. Definitely in Chapter Three, but I don't know whether Ch-hs ‘pat-h. (Sorry, slipping into Language again.)

I'm still wondering about my character's POV and tone. I'm okay with the flippant stuff, but I'm just not sure about the superior past tense. I guess it'll work itself out in the end.