82 Eridani: Journey is 1/6 done, at least as far as the first draft is concerned.  I finished chapter five last night.  As I’ve mentioned before, it’s plotted out to be 30 chapters long.  Right now, this is the story that seems to be most accessible in my brain, so that’s what I’m writing.  I also have to at least have a chapter done every other week, so that I can read it at my writers’ group.

Chapter 4 didn’t have any sex or violence, so I had to fix that with chapter 5.  Remember I’m going for a cable audience with this book.  So I ended the chapter with a violent domestic abuse incident.  I noticed something about myself when I wrote it too.  My favorite characters are the ones that tend to have the most horrible stuff happen to them in my books.  I don’t know what that says about me.