The process so far

I'm at 7361, so I'm about a thousand words behind.  I never thought that for someone who always has something to say about almost everything, I'd have a hard time getting it out.  I'm not pleased with the story yet.  I like the idea of it and the direction, but I don't know the characters anywhere near well enough.  I know there aren't any "wow" moments (yet).

So far I'm pretty much writing down the bare bones.  First I wrote out a rough outline; I can see that in the end it will be about a third or so of the true outline.  Then I started the story pretty much in line.  Now I've started jumping around a little, then adding important bits to the outline.  I can already feel where I'll go back and flesh out certain areas.  I'm pretty sure that there's about a third of the story that I still need to discover.  I know there is one character that I have no idea how to write.  The direction and end are going to depend largely on how much of her I put directly into the tale.  I haven't backed myself into anything yet.

Instead of doing a lot of actual writing today (though I did get about 2000 words in) I did a bunch of research.  I've highlighted several places in the text where I need to include some more accurate details and I know basically what I'm looking for.  Now that I have a more firm idea of place in my mind I really need to get the names worked out. 

Onward!