Today I continued work on scene 2 of the story. This one never appeared in my initial outline and I hadn’t intended to write from this character’s point of view, so it’s good practice to develop as I go along.
The purpose of the scene is to show who my second main character is by way of an action scene and also introduce some of the political elements of the world through his perspective. The setting is a highway robbery that he orchestrated, but is in the process of going wrong.
Because I didn’t plan anything going into it, the writing is slow as I try to figure out what happens next and what is the appropriate level of description. But description is also something I can easily layer in in later drafts, so I’m not too worried about it. I just need to write a satisfying and logical chain of events for the scene as it comes to a head in a small skirmish.