Calculations

I love symmetry. That’s the reason why I needed to have a total of fifteen chapters in the book, divided into three parts. I love symmetry, and that is why when the chapter count for the first part came out to be five, I decided without giving much thought to the following chapters that it will be a five chapter per part book.

Now, I am struggling to keep the storyline taut.

Along with all that symmetry also came the realisation that if this were to be a two month (or thereabouts) venture I will have to chalk out some sort of timeline. And so I did sit down and chalked it out.

Some simple arithmetic and a bit of imagination later, I came to the conclusion that each chapter will be devoted a maximum of four days. One thing gave me a bit of a respite though. The daily word count that needed to be achieved hadn’t shot up. In fact it had come down by a couple of hundred words.

Update: Work on Chapter 2 has begun in earnest.