BAUplan, FM-PMS

Week 1 of 2 of my vacation is now over and -yes- there is still a planet beyond my desk (and story files on my harddrive). I planned on working on "Business As Usual" (or at least the polishing for the PDF/e-book version of "Family Matters"), instead I'm playing with my long going Family Matters side-story "Mariko" - a.k.a. the sordid tale of Seishiro, his kids, and a house in Osaka... Okay, not so much of the last one, because I'm not that much into architecture. Anyway, here's the result of last week's work...

Story: Mariko
word count: 3191 (down from 3903)
less because I now take advantage of the episodic nature of the story and tell some of the crucial details in retrospect / memories, thus eliminating a lot of otherwise necessary but unimportant clutter.
structure: Part I (1983, just prae bet, Seiran), Part II (1987, Paper doesn't blush), Part II (1991, between end-of-bet and Hokuto's death, Jiro and Taro).
scenes Part I: cliff, illusion, biology practice, killing schedule, {caught in the act}.
scenes Part II: the patience of the predator
scenes Part III: {without an eye}, phone order, {dead man mating, accommodating a Sumeragi}
[complete, incomplete, {missing}]
quote of the day Part I: "Is there a fridge?"
quote of the day Part II: "She might become prey."
quote of the day Part III: "Why don't you take off your glasses?"

...and I probably should stop making plans for specific writing tasks (see above). I always end up working on something different anyway!