I'm at 43,400 words, which puts me an entire day ahead of schedule, thank goodness. I have definitely been finding some interesting challenges in writing a much more action-heavy narrative than the web-of-secrets, detective-procedural sort of story Part I was. Something [i]particularly[/i] difficult to let go of has been the idea that everything has to make real-world sense, even though I very carefully and intentionally built my world in a way that allows for some serious rule-of-cool silliness without straying from narrative context. Part of that surprises me - I [i]built[/i] this world, why do I have to keep reminding myself that a fifty-meter-wide monocycle armed to the teeth with electrical discharge cannons is [i]totally okay[/i]? I blame my engineering classes.

Still, I'm through the first three big vehicle chase/combat/action scenes, with pacers to breathe for a moment before some new terrifying thing happens. I'm also getting quite a stable of entertainingly weird vehicles to go hurling through my world's insane faunasphere. My favourite is [i]probably[/i] the one I just wrote - an enormous articulated snake with sections a couple of meters wide and a few meters long, a two-person cockpit for a head, and a massively electrified hull to deal with at least some of the forest monsters they'd be likely to encounter.