Day 5

1,530 words. In about an hour.

At least I seem to have figured out why this feels so suspiciously easy. My practice novel was a mystery thriller with an ensemble cast, three of which were main characters and five or six of which had arcs, accompanied by fight scenes (which I'm not good at) and complicated logistics. The Robot Changeling, on the other hand, is a middle grade book with one protagonist and a mere handful of supporting characters. It's also a more internal story with a lot of sitting around and talking scenes, which are more my forte. For the five minutes after I realized that I felt a lot better about the breakneck pace I have going.

Of course, fate just loves messing with me, so naturally I then watched a YouTube video about writing, where an agent, someone with skin in the game who would know, said she felt fast-paced books were harder to fix than slow-paced ones.

I'm... just going to pretend I didn't hear that.