her feet would ache tomorrow.

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207 / 350

Yesterday was up to 204/205, for record-keeping's sake.

Problem with not quite knowing where the plot is going: you start writing just sort of "and then this happened", and then the shape of the novel starts to feel all off, and then you don't even know where you are in that sense any more.

The other thing that happened today was that I realized some fail (namely of the 'race' variety) that is true of my novel right now. (I've also been realizing some vague hints of non-cisgendered-fail in the novel lately.) I started trying to think my way through that, and how I want to address that--specifically via the plot. Because, well, a bunch of the fail is fail that a lot of urban fantasy novels have. And I'm writing an urban fantasy novel, but this one is supposed to be more awesome and (ideally) less fail-y. But that's shifting how I think about the plot, and--see last paragraph, because that hasn't completely settled yet. Still and all, it'll be stronger when I figure this all out... it's just holding me back right now.

Today's archives adventure: I realized that, of the two-months-plus of 1902 political cartoons I logged and described last time, approximately 35-40% of them were actually from 1901. If you need someone who can tell a 1901 daily political cartoon from a 1902 daily political cartoon? I'm your girl.

Except sometimes, because some of the issues--tariffs, etc.--just kept popping up so much that the cartoonist started riffing off the predictability of it, and those riffs don't come in a sequence. Unfortunately. But other than that, I'm pretty darned good at it.