One of the funnest things about writing is the feeling you get when you're writing a scene with no thought to what comes later in the story, and suddenly you realize that you've just provided some really cool foreshadowing for something that will happen later on. It's a very good feeling.

Novel update: I finished chapter 5 last Thursday, and then spent Friday morning working out plot stuff before taking the weekend off. Today I made really good headway on chapter 6. *pats self on back* I have a job interview on Thursday, and I might have a temp job on Friday and Saturday, so between that and my article I probably won't get through 7 this week. But finishing 6 should be no problem.

I still don't know how many chapters the book will be, but I do know how all of the plot threads will eventually tie together, and that's a good thing to know.