Well, today was much better than the last few days!
So much so that I got to an "oopsie!" point in my outline, in that I really need something to go in between the last scene I wrote today and the next scene on my outline. There is--at minimum!--six months between the two scenes. And, perhaps more importantly, the next scene (which is less a "scene" than a "plot point") is a murder. A murder for which the hero must be falsely blamed, at least by a few stupid loud-mouths. At present, there is basically zero reason anyone would ever suspect him of involvement, especially since he lives somewhere that is several days' journey away, and no one would have seen him anywhere near the scene of the crime. (Though this is a fantasy with magical fast-travel, so that's not an insurmountable thing.) So I need quite a few scenes in between there to establish some reason for people to blame him, something to set him up as an enemy of the about-to-be-murdered man. Which shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish, but it's frustrating to have to put aside the actual story for it. 😰 Probably I need to start by putting in some more animosity from the soon-to-be murdered man towards the hero, since a few scenes back, the hero was visiting the victim's son and daughter-in-law. If I insert a scene there with the victim being himself and verbally mistreating the hero, that will help, but I still need to invent some scenes to go in the current gap, too...
Anyway.
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