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I got up early today and re-outlined. As with the previous re-outline, this consisted pretty much of writing down chapter numbers (in this case 20 through 40) and then copying everything that was written on the previous outline into this outline without changing anything.

The important thing, though, is that my perspective on it changed. Apparently my brain was pretty clever; it stuck a couple of key events in at exactly the right places for turning points in the second half. Good job, brain.

So then this evening I wrote some more pages. Tomorrow I'm not going to the library, so I'll be able to write even more! Knock on wood.

Today I did go to the library, though. I checked out some books--including The Beastly Bride, which I've started reading; By the Mountain Bound; The Court of the Air (it was recommended on the Politics of Steampunk panel at Wiscon); and a novel by Stroud I hadn't seen before.

But that is orthogonal to what mostly happened there today. Tuesdays are archives days. My new project for them involves going through a set of proofs for Charles Bartholomew's daily political cartoons, 1902-1915, and writing up a sentence describing what each one is and what it's talking about. (Apparently they were quite popular at the time, though Wikipedia now thinks I'm asking about a Gossip Girls character. Ouch. Posthumous apologies.)

What this means in normal English is that I spent five or so hours staring at pieces of paper and got through two and a half months of political cartoons.

Also, I now know entirely too much about the day-to-day political climate of 1902 than anyone has a right to. Someday I am going to write a novel entirely set in Minnesota in 1902 and everyone will marvel at my eye for historical detail. Possibly it will star a political cartoonist.