I’ve added another chapter to Fumets, my novella. I’ve taken the strategy of stopping every chapter at a high point and starting another. The story is not linear. I am not starting at the beginning and working towards the end. I am jumping around in time until I finish the entire back-story and then I will head straight at the ending. Right now, I have 10 chapters outlined (vaguely). I find that I have been chopping the chapters at one to two thousand words, but some of the end chapters have a lot of action, so the final word count will be somewhere near 15,000. I am trying to write fast and this means that I leave out descriptions of things. I have not tried to do much imagery or characterizations. The characters are stock stuff. If I ever finish this, I might go back and polish things.
I have about 3,000 words of notes describing characters and situations, but you won’t see much of this in the story, yet.
I am still not sure how much of this works out, which is a good thing. I need to keep surprising myself if there is any hope of finishing this.