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Chapter 4 done. 18,300 words - supposed to be around 16,000, but fortunately chapter 5 will be shorter. Throw in the fragments I've got for later scenes, and I'm just short of 19,500 words in total.
The chapter started off very unfocused for me; it's the first chapter that's really structured around events just on a plot level, intercutting between viewpoints, rather than following a character or two through one escalating situation. So it sort of feels like I'm losing focus, as I introduce additional POV characters... but the ending finally came together, and in that last bit, for the first time in the book, I'm writing scenes I feel proud of on a sentence-by-sentence level.
I'm still struggling with the need for restraint in this book, but finally I'm at a point where I can take the brakes off a bit...