I had been thinking this particular story would fall into the shorter section for BBH fics, until I write almost that much in one day and didn't cover near as much as I thought that number of words would cover.

But until then I had been writing earlier childhood stuff (Bad Blood and before) which actually I realize now makes sense being more glossy and not dwelling on two many specific moments plus I was struggling to fit bits of canon together into some kind of clearer story. But yesterday I skipped forward to writing the drama of Guy's first real love (because I thought he needed someone besides Marian earlier in his life and holy cow, if I've written this much about the emotional drama with an OC, I can't even begin to think what its going to be like once I actually *do* get to Marian) but that's another decade or so down the road and I need to do some plot stuff before I get back on the medieval soup opera drama and I also need to back up and do the rest of the stuff that comes before the drama I've been writing, and basically this is going to be crazy long I now expect.

So far today is still above my standard writing numbers for a day, but I doubt I'll have quite so much crazy as yesterday. And the muses were a little helpful while keeping me up in how to manage the time gap I'm faced with so I don't think I need the help and yeah I'd rather work it out on my own, but I'll keep it in mind.

I don't know if the muses like virtual chocolate or not, I don't but I suppose they might.