junowrimo day 3

Today’s stats:

titles: 1 (The Priestess Murders — a Light-Walkers murder mystery)
today’s wordcount: 1,774
total wordcount: 7,580
chapters: 1
cups of coffee consumed: 9
beers consumed: 1
sleuths: 2
assistants/servants: 2 onscreen, 2 offscreen
murder scenes: 1
corpses: 1 offscreen, 1 onscreen
dismembered body parts: 3
suspects-to-be: 4
deceptions: 6

I’m enjoying this story, but if it weren’t JuNoWriMo, I’d be heavily editing already. I’m 7k+ words in, and I’m still in Chapter 1. And I also haven’t even gotten Body #2 onscreen yet. I know there’s no hard and fast rule about when/how that kind of thing is “supposed to” happen, but it still seems to me like I’m taking WAY too much time about it.

Building realistic suspense is hard, y’all.