Well, I've managed to get the second part up to about 14,150 words. But because I'm not the quickest writer in the world(seriously it takes me two to four times as many words and time to write the same things as other writers it seems,) I've only gotten to a little bit after lunch time. At this point, I'm half tempted to split John's first diapered Saturday into two parts, with his after lunch nap being the splitting point. Then again, I'm not sure how much I'm going to write after his nap. There's also the fact that I'm not 100% sure I'd want to put you guys through a 20,000 some odd word chunk of story. Just a whole bunch of stuff came into my head when I realized I would easily surpass the high end of my original word count goal.

I don't know, should I leave Saturday as one full part, or split it into two? Would people be okay with having it be so lengthy, if I did keep Saturday as only one part? Should I try to condense things down?

All of this isn't even getting into my worries about how well my character progression is coming along, and whether John's growing acceptance of being treated like a giant toddler is paced out properly. As well as whether or not I'm fleshing out Jake enough as a character in this story. Does it matter how well Jake is fleshed out in this story? Considering he's going to get his own story, as a set up to this one. Also, how big of a part should Helen get as the story goes on? She will have much larger rolls in later stories, and I'm going to try to flesh her out more in Jake's story, btw. So many thoughts, questions and concerns so few answers. Oh well, I'm sure I'll source out my feelings on things in time.

Don't worry too much about this stuff if you're not sure how to reply. This journal is mostly just a means of getting thoughts out of my head. Airing out my concerns, stresses and all that. I'm too tired to put in music links right now, I'll put them in tomorrow. I'm going to sleep. Sweet dreams everybody.