I completely forgot to do a Tuesday check-in yesterday, but better late than never, right? We are plugging right along through book 5. I think we’ve managed to get in 4 or 5 chapters this past week. The book at this point still feels rough to us though. We have many author notes, some even simply saying “add description here”, but that is drafting for you. The important thing is to keep pressing ahead and crafting the story. I will say, we both are excited about the story and the direction our characters are driving us in the plot.
And speaking of characters, we met a fun character a few weeks back. We decided that since we live in an area known for manatees, we ought to go see them, so we went to a local state park that hosts wild manatees in season. In addition to hosting manatees, this park also is home to many creatures who cannot be released into the wild for various reasons and is almost like a zoo. The picture below is a character who lives there named Lu. He looks nothing like what M. or I even imagined our Lu to look like, but I found him absolutely adorable nonetheless.
