About that...you know...that thing I'm not talking about. I yanked another 300 or so words out of one of the scenes I wrote out of order, one of the ones I'm now trying to fit into The Actual Thing So Far and that scene, too, is much improved by being shortened.

Out Of Order #2 wasn't bad. I pulled a couple of hundred words out of that one and I think most of what's left will work fine.

The third and final pre-written scene...well, it's only three pages. If I have to trash two of those, it's not a catastrophe.

Writing scenes out of order? Never again.

Just imagine how spectacular the Thing could be if this keeps up, though. I mean, if I delete 20,000 words, I could wind up with something brilliant.

It occurred to me this morning that it would be very interesting to write a non-case, case story. I mean a story where they're on a case, but I never actually talk about the case, except for incidental details. Where the only thing described is the characters' interaction with each other. It could be fascinating to write. You could drive the readers nuts dropping hints about the actual case, then distracting them by describing how the guys are distracted by each other.

(This is not under consideration for the current Thing. It's more of a sort of Future or Contemplated Inspiration.)

Current Revelations include the notion that if, when you start the story, one character is already convinced that what makes happiness is a roll in the hay with the other character, then you don't have to go through that laborious process of showing how he discovers this fact. Much work, sweat, and cursing could be elminated. (Of course, that's just a PWP with more words, but still....)