This was my first full night of writing in more than two months--maybe even three months.
After having been out of the game for so long it felt good to be back at the keyboard with my imagination rolling. I worked on some background material for a court scene that appears early in Sunder's First Movement. Friday night I struggled to outline that scene and its outcome in the synopsis, going over it again and again with dissatisfying results. I let it sit for the weekend and came back to it tonight. It became clear to me that I couldn't describe the court scene for the synopsis without understanding the murder and some of the associated investigation, handled by Niemeier and Malmburgh. I spent most of this evening writing out a summary of the murder and a brief, step-by-step outline of how Niemeier and Malmburgh brought the case to trial.
Now I have a stage on which to let Niemeier's personal problems complicate matters and land him in hot water with his partner, his supervisors and the Office of the General Prosecutor.
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