I just posted the draft of Chapter 26 of The Transfigured Lady, for those of you reading along.
I’m in the process of writing Chapter 29 right now. In my outline, there are 31 chapters, but I’m looking at where I am and where I need to get and suspect that I will wind up inserting at least one more chapter. There needs to be an additional scene, definitely, but it might have to unpack to a full chapter.
Even though I’m an outliner, and get most of the structure problems solved through the outline, it’s still only a rough guide. I make discoveries and expand and contract parts of it in the same way I do when I’m writing short form.
For me, it’s a lot like sculpting. I start with a frame and then build up from there. I don’t start refining things until I have the whole structure roughed in and then I can start smoothing things out. But then, I tend to work in clay where one can be both an additive and a subtractive sculptor. I imagine my lens would be different if I worked in marble.
