Six Sentence Sunday: Part of the Night: The Wayne Legacy

Part of the Night: The Wayne Legacy

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Jim Gordon stared at the Bat as it disappeared behind the skyscrapers. He had noted that Batman appeared when Bruce Wayne returned from the dead nearly a decade ago, but he fell for the playboy antics like the rest of the city, until Wayne protected the police SUV from the desperate man obeying the Joker. Coleman Reese developed amnesia on Batman's identity after that. And then there was Wayne's reaction to Dent and Dawes' deaths.

It was obvious if you looked deep enough, but Gordon decided then he wouldn't pry for the sake of their friendship. And he would hide Batman's identity for their friendship too.

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Summary: Batman is dead and everyone else must pick up the pieces of Gotham City.

The sequel to the One Rule. The Part of the Night series started way back in 2013 and while my muse was happily skipping along with this happens next and that leads to this scene, the nuts 'n bolts part of my brain realized in the outlining stage that chopping in half was the best way to go. End the first novel with the bomb's detonation and the second novel would cover the reconstruction of Gotham. The outline was deceptively simply with that metric. With hindsight of having finished the rough draft and edits, if I had followed my normal practice of write-edit-post, I would have made Part of the Night a trilogy instead of a duology. I hope you enjoy this take on the Nolanverse.

Six Sentence Sunday: Part of the Night: The Wayne Legacy

Part of the Night: The Wayne Legacy

BookWorm's Library | Ao3

Jim Gordon stared at the Bat as it disappeared behind the skyscrapers. He had noted that Batman appeared when Bruce Wayne returned from the dead nearly a decade ago, but he fell for the playboy antics like the rest of the city, until Wayne protected the police SUV from the desperate man obeying the Joker. Coleman Reese developed amnesia on Batman's identity after that. And then there was Wayne's reaction to Dent and Dawes' deaths.

It was obvious if you looked deep enough, but Gordon decided then he wouldn't pry for the sake of their friendship. And he would hide Batman's identity for their friendship too.

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Summary: Batman is dead and everyone else must pick up the pieces of Gotham City.

The sequel to the One Rule. The Part of the Night series started way back in 2013 and while my muse was happily skipping along with this happens next and that leads to this scene, the nuts 'n bolts part of my brain realized in the outlining stage that chopping in half was the best way to go. End the first novel with the bomb's detonation and the second novel would cover the reconstruction of Gotham. The outline was deceptively simply with that metric. With hindsight of having finished the rough draft and edits, if I had followed my normal practice of write-edit-post, I would have made Part of the Night a trilogy instead of a duology. I hope you enjoy this take on the Nolanverse.

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New Words: 1927
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 3218
Chapter Forty total: 3151
Total words for first draft: 125,550
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Nine and shunted the second half of what I wrote into Chapter Forty, since it only has two rough draft pages. Now it won't feel like a tacked on after-thought. Then when I got home I needed to wait on my dishwasher and ended up finishing Chapter Forty.
Fave line: "It's like living in a giant aquarium."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Ran the dishwasher, and completely avoided working on the office clean-up.
What I'm looking forward to: Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it. I'm down to the office and the living room. If I can chip away at the office for the rest of the week, I can spend all weekend on the living room.

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New Words: 864
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 4036
Total words for first draft: 123,623
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Typed more on Chapter Thirty-Nine, found a better spot to put in what Babs did to help so tomorrow I'll need to edit what I had put in earlier that doesn't work as well.
Fave line: "Uncle John found a subway?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: I cooked and cleaned the kitchen after I did it. I didn't clean in the office at all, but we can't have everything.
What I'm looking forward to: Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it. I'm down to the office and the living room. If I can chip away at the office for the rest of the week, I can spend all weekend on the living room.

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New Words: 664
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 3172
Total words for first draft: 122,759
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I could have gotten more typed, but I got distracted. I'm also considering shifting some of Chapter Thirty-Nine to the woefully short Chapter Forty. Don't know how to do it yet.
Fave line: "Selina, did you plan on a dead body being down here?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: Hemmed one pair of pants, and it was pulling teeth to make me do that.



I've turned my entire living room into an invisible corner as long as that means I don't have to touch sewing again. Which means I have to, I still have repairs to the Victorian Blue and two more pants to hem.
What I'm looking forward to: Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it. I'm down to the office and the living room. If I can chip away at the office for the rest of the week, I can spend all weekend on the living room.

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New Words: 269
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 2508
Total words for first draft: 122,095
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: A little bit of typing, since I spent the writing time on other projects.
Fave line: "The gardeners wouldn't like that."
What Else I Accomplished Today: The kitchen is reset. And since I had to get tools out of the kitchen, the back porch is reset now.



What I'm looking forward to: This weekend: I think I can finish the reset clean up of the kitchen and hopefully the office. And hem the new pants. Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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New Words: 592
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Eight retyped additional words: 29
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 2239
Total words for first draft: 121,826
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: ARGH! I had to retype Chapter Thirty-Eight because I goofed-up and deleted the done version on the flash drive thinking I had already transferred it to the hard drive thanks to opening the hard drive copy and making a minor change and throwing off the last modified date. Changes I had added I had to recreate from memory, so I didn't end up typing that much more in Chapter Thirty Nine.
Fave line: "And if the Riddler or Bane found this potential back door?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: Laundry, primarily, and chipping away at the kitchen.
What I'm looking forward to: This weekend: I think I can finish the reset clean up of the kitchen and hopefully the office. And hem the new pants. Rest of the month: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 550
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 1676
Total words for first draft: 121,234
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a little bit more done on Chapter Thirty-Nine.
Fave line: "So go get the options Lorry has thought up. Then he won't feel like you're avoiding him again. And you're staying in bed all night tonight. I'll tie you down to make sure."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Actually posted to DUF and LJ. After last year's barely posting, that is an accomplishment.
What I'm looking forward to: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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New Words: 1126
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Chapter Thirty-Nine total: 1126
Total words for first draft: 120,684
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a great start on Chapter Thirty-nine and posted Chapter Thirty-Seven. I have a buffer again. WOOT!
Fave line: "I have a target. Alfred refused to have it in the house and I refuse to light up the grounds when I want to practice archery at night."
What Else I Accomplished Today: I cooked before all the ingredients went bad. However I didn't clean my mess of a fridge. It's been that kind of week.
What I'm looking forward to: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1347
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704
Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 1848
Total words for first draft: 119,558
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: I finished typing the rough draft of Chapter Thirty-Eight, but I didn't think it was that short. :/
Fave line: "He didn't approve of how I applied his philosophy. But it worked. I set out to create a symbol to inspire the people of Gotham and now they have embraced it."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Check book finally balanced and I did not freeze. Considering that the freeze line went all the way to the Gulf of Mexico today and I had to go to work, I consider it an accomplishment.
What I'm looking forward to: I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. I still don't know if I can do that or not because I have to pay the bills. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1748
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 3704BR> Chapter Thirty-Eight total: 501
Total words for first draft: 118,211
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Seven and started Chapter Thirty-Eight. Now that I have all forty chapters written in rough draft form, finishing this up will go much quicker.
Fave line: "If anyone else shows up, we have all left the country. I don't care who it is."
What Else I Accomplished Today: "The Seven-Step Business Plan for Writers" article is finally printed out. That involved way too many steps in order to get a readable printout. It's going with me to the doctor's appointment tomorrow so I can work on the steps.
What I'm looking forward to: Balancing the checkbook. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 399
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 2457
Total words for first draft: 116,463
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a little bit of typing done.
Fave line: "That is the voice of never again experience."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Odds and ends grocery shopping.
What I'm looking forward to: Balancing the checkbook. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1031
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 2058
Total words for first draft: 116,064
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Typed more on Chapter Thirty-Seven.
Fave line: . "I had to switch cars at Wayne Enterprises to lose the paparazzi. Now I understand why the Brits do that balcony waving stuff."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Bathroom is done, kitchen is done enough to function, and I never even touched the office, living room, or sewing.



Here's to hoping I wake up with some energy to do housework before leaving for the paying job tomorrow.
What I'm looking forward to: Balancing the checkbook. I'm hoping that I'll finally be able to afford what I promised myself I could buy after I paid my car off back in March of last year. :p And I think this is the weekend I planned on going to friends' so I cannot clean if I'm not home.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1041
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2202
Chapter Thirty-Seven total: 1027
Total words for first draft: 115,033
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished the rough draft on January 1st. All I did was play a computer game and write. Then I realized that this series took about a year and a half to write.



I blew the 2nd on blood work, HTML coding Chapter Thirty-Six, correcting the Italian in "Forgiveness," and editing One Rule. So I finally started typing Chapter Thirty-Seven today January 3rd.
Fave line: "Sorry we screwed up having her in the Regency Room, Alfred."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Three hours spent cleaning the kitchen and I'm only half done. :p Seriously, it is the half with the pantry, which I also cleaned out and got rid of food I can't eat. And I also uncovered the table again.



Non-stop rain is what stopped me from relocating the cardboard boxes and various recyclables to the porch or car, which is making the mess in the middle of the room now. The half that is left to do is dishes, which shouldn't take long once I can actually reach them and move the dishwasher around.
What I'm looking forward to: Bathroom, living room, and office are still on the deep clean list. The hall needs a reset from the laundry, and I haven't touched the sewing mess, which I must do to hem the new pants I bought for Christmas and to repair the Victorian Blue Dress before packing it. Yeah, right I'm looking forward to all that.



Okay, I'm looking forward to the clean house at the end of all that.
What I'm not looking forward to: The actual CLEANING I have to do. Plus sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 2038
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 2188
Total words for first draft: 113,992
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Six. The big climax did not take as many words as I thought it would. :p
Fave line: "But we need to have a serious talk about your taste in men."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Survived Christmas, survived the after Christmas sales, survived Monday; what more do you want?
What I'm looking forward to: Bringing order to my house. It'll probably take all four days plus the four days for New Year's to get it done.
What I'm not looking forward to: Sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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New Words: 1093
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 2313
Chapter Thirty-Six total: 150
Total words for first draft: 111,954
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Five, mainly because I didn't think it would come out that short when I outlined it. Started Chapter Thirty-Six when I still had typing time left.
Fave line: None of them wore green, so he dismissed them.
What Else I Accomplished Today: I got a holiday ham delivery schedule for myself, mean I have to go get it after work tomorrow.
What I'm looking forward to: Bringing order to my house. It'll probably take all four days plus the four days for New Year's to get it done.
What I'm not looking forward to: Sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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METRICS
New Words: 1370
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Chapter Thirty-Five total: 1370
Total words for first draft: 110,861
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Wow, I got a lot of words done in between my cooking misadventures.
Fave line: "Well, Admiral Ackbar, looks like we've found the Riddler's trap." – Finally, a pop culture reference that Bruce did get.
What Else I Accomplished Today: So I bought a new cookbook that gave me a chicken pot pie recipe with a crust. WOOT, I can have my favorite food again. It needs six egg whites. I have four eggs. Okay scratched up a dozen with what Mom's chickens laid today. Oh, the Primal eggnog recipe only uses egg yolks, no leftovers. Mix the dry ingredients for the biscuit crust, no problems. Mix the wet ingredients in the blender that I'm already leery of, the jar gets stuck and I end up unscrewing it from the blades and lose half the liquid.

Luckily the dry mix only needed the half I managed to save, but the results only covered half the pie. Mix up more biscuit but put the liquid in the food processor that doesn't leak. Then I have to mix up more dry ingredients since I have the liquid leftover. The biscuits taste great but didn't rise at all.

Done with that, time to use up the egg yolks in eggnog. Cook the egg and milk mixture slowly on low heat for 5 to 10 minutes, but at the five minute mark I didn't think it was thick enough. 10 minutes: scrambled sugar eggs. Second half of the yolks I managed to turn into eggnog.

Now I'm out of eggs and I never got to cook the brownies.
What I'm looking forward to: Bringing order to my house. It'll probably take all four days plus the four days for New Year's to get it done.
What I'm not looking forward to: Sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.

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New Words: 1367
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 2047
Total words for first draft: 109,491
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished Chapter Thirty-Four, but it is such a short chapter. I don't want to lose the big oh no by adding another scene.
Fave line: "Either it'll be a chance to laugh when Alfred says I'm doing it all wrong and takes over or good practice for when Stephanie and Tara are old enough for lessons."
What Else I Accomplished Today: Well, it wasn't watching Marvel's Agents of Shield thanks to technical difficulties. Now I need to decide if I want a cable subscription or not.
What I'm looking forward to: Sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.
What I'm not looking forward to: Giving myself a job that's going to take months.



Seriously, there's the fabric that has been waiting since before July and the paperwork mess in my office that has been waiting for filing for about that long too. It would be great to have one or the other done before New Year's.

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So two weeks ago, I was busy typing to post the story before I went to my sister's for Thanksgiving and neglected to post the metrics. Then the week after that, I was busy finishing the sewing project for Dickens on the Strand this past weekend. Now that's all done, so onto the rest of the story.

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Date: 11/25/2014

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METRICS
New Words: 2204
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3422
Total words for first draft: 106,998
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got the bulk of Chapter Thirty-Three typed today.
Fave line: "Yes, Nightwing, I do think Batman is mad I said it was all his fault!"

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Date: 11/26/2014

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METRICS
New Words: 446
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Total words for first draft: 107,444
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Finished typing Chapter Thirty-Three.
Fave line: "If you want her to kick your ass while pregnant, go repeat that to Selina."

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Date: 12/08/2014

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METRICS
New Words: 680
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 3868
Chapter Thirty-Four total: 680
Total words for first draft: 108,124
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Got a good start on Chapter Thirty-Four.
Fave line: "Sir, was there ever a time when this job was normal?"
What Else I Accomplished Today: NO SEWING! Because I'm finished, I wore the dress, and I can clean the living room.



What I'm looking forward to: Sorting through the sewing remains and finishing the inventory of the fabric stash as I repack it.
What I'm not looking forward to: Giving myself a job that's going to take months.



Seriously, there's the fabric that has been waiting since before July and the paperwork mess in my office that has been waiting for filing for about that long too. It would be great to have one or the other done before New Year's. Okay, let's go back to being ecstatic about no more sewing.

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METRICS
New Words: 1218
Chapter One – Ten total: 26,804
Chapter Eleven – Twenty total: 30,397
Chapter Twenty-One - Thirty total: 38,399
Chapter Thirty-One total: 4510
Chapter Thirty-Two total: 3466
Chapter Thirty-Three total: 1218
Total words for first draft: 104,794
What I Accomplished in the Narrative Today: Dream-version of Riddler inspired by BTAS! And that much closer to the second pinch point.
Fave line: "So Batman as a smokescreen for the Riddler's obsession with Catwoman? Sorry, lover, but he cared less that he had me in his clutches."
What Else I Accomplished Today: ARGH! A typo in the sewing directions meant I spent double the time necessary to move forward because I had to undo everything I had sewed and redo it.
What I'm looking forward to: Finishing sewing at some point this month.
What I'm not looking forward to: Another freezing night.