The satisfying scrutch of feet hitting gravel

Couch-to-5K Week 7 Day 1, and what a fine day it is: Jog 25 minutes with no walking

The annoying thing is that the first few minutes are still hard. I still want to stop, and I still end up doing that shuffling barely-counts-as-a-jog thing. (This is different from the one-third sagging point, which yep, hit right on schedule at about 8 minutes. But that's becoming familiar as an old friend, and I'm already set to push through it.)

The great thing is that the last few minutes are -- well, not easy, but strong and sure and when the timer goes off, I don't want to stop at all.

Plot vs. Character: Cage Match

So I've been working on this scene that I only created so that I would have a place to put a cool bit of characterization. But I've been concentrating so hard on making the scene work plot-wise that I totally forgot about the cool characterization bit, and now it doesn't fit anymore. :-(

Oh, well. That particular characterization stuff would be better elsewhere anyway; it's a bit too early for these two characters to be having a heart-to-heart, even an antagonistic one. I've no idea what the set-up scene that it eventually will fit in will be like, but it's hardly the first time I'll figure something out when I get there.