Ask Dr. Pretentious

I would guess that about a third of that word count is in the form of notes, questions, descriptions of scenes I didn't have enough brain left actually to write, lists of books I need to read and subjects I need to research. So even though some part of every chapter actually exists now, very little of the story is actually legible as story. I've got a few great scenes, a bunch of scenes that can be made good with not too much effort, a bunch of scenes that are holding the space open for stuff I haven't really figured out yet, and a bunch of scenes that are just plain wrong but that I thought might work while I was writing them. I've also got three or four versions of a couple of scenes, where I hadn't figured out how best to present things.