(That's What SHE Said)

Phew, decent writing day. 1,122 words, and that's after eating nothing but one of those fiber one mini granola bars and 3 jelly beans ALL DAY. Spoiler alert: I'm starving.

Anyway, today was another fun writing day, though not as productive as yesterday. Today I wrote in a new character, who will be pretty minor in this book but will have a bigger role in the second (gasp! did she just say second?!). Then I got into the politics of the Dissenters, which has been so fun.

I've only just skimmed the surface in today's writing, but more will become clear (painfully clear) throughout the next chapter or so. Basically, however, this is what is going on: the setting for this story, as I think I've said before, is basically a not-so-distant future where American politics, business, and religion have all fused as one. It's a terrible, manipulative, horrible society, and the chip which Bryn & Mer are trying to steal is only the latest in a number of unconscionable actions by the government.

At this point in the story, the only group that seems to be standing up to the government is a rebel faction known only as the Dissenters. Anyone who knows me will know that I have a huge soft spot for rebel factions, and would therefore assume that the Dissenters would be good. Hell, they must be good since they're standing up to Super Gov, right?

Wrong.

The Dissenters are awful. I intensely dislike them...more, even than the gov. Dissenter society is highly communistic, but also hypocritical, controlling, dispassionate, and cruel (so...communist). Jules, Bryn's contact, is the only one I find tolerable...and her only just. It's going to be a very confusing few chapters for Mer, who is going to enter the society and hate it, seeing all of the parallels between it and her own distasteful society. She'll wonder if Bryn really endorses it (of course he doesn't) and if he's really a bad guy after all (of course he's not). Anyway, I got into a bit of that today, and it was highly amusing. I'd keep writing, but 1. I'm almost out of time, and 2. I haven't eaten anything all day and must focus all of my energy on not imploding.

Also, I have a date tonight. I am less than pleased.

On a lighter note, the title of this blog is a reference to the fact that I actually worked a 'that's what s/he said' joke into my writing today! That, and the fact that I'm evidently obsessed with brackets today. I'm sure (am I sure? Today's going by pretty slowly (Ugh, so so painfully slowly! Who knew it could be so long (that's what she said!))) that I'll get over it soon.

Anyway, I'm off to have a terrible date. Wish me luck in surviving. At least we're going to a restaurant with killer tomato soup!


Working Title: Bryn & Mer: Nosce Te Ipsum
Word Count: 77,644
Writing Mode: Famished