I didn’t write anything new; however, I did tie off a final draft of the origin scene of Psann (“The Seal Maiden”). Is Seal Tales going to be a story about identity and transformation (literal and not-so literal; transformations life forces upon you and the transformations you take control of yourself)? Well, I won’t write explicitly to that theme, but it’s been a major part of my life so it’s bound to creep in.

So that’s 1 scene out of 21 knocked down. My scenes seem to generally fall into the 2k word range (1.5k is the minimum, 4k is the maximum, so far), so on average that’s 1000 words a day until the Clarion Workshop ends. This particular scene was 2.3k.

It’s also a scene that, due to its importance, has been knocked about quite a bit. Here is the transformation of just the first few paragraphs, from draft to draft (which ones I could fine; I swear this thing has undergone over 15 drafts, just not all snapshotted).

The drafts and their discussion are below the cut.

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