Blue Rose shenanigans

Yesterday I was writing on Blue Rose again. It felt good. I'm at 20K+ words, and I've reached the very beginning of the third ambush. It's a critical point in my outline and things get fuzzier from here on out, but it's the first block in leading up to the transition to act 2. I've been waiting a long time to get to this part.

Speaking of outlining, I've also put in some work on my notes for the 7-point story structure. The third ambush doesn't appear there because it's not one of the transitions according to this method. It's more a part of the build-up and oh, I've just been completely nerding out on all sorts of outlining methods and plot systems.

I'm no good at plot, I'm not good at planning, this is really hard and I feel lost but if I just keep plugging at it eventually I will get somewhere.

I think I must be at no more than the 1/8th mark. This suggests a roughly 150K manuscript, if and when the first draft is complete.