Continuity

Writing a new chapter, finally. I've been adding more pages from Jonathan Huxley as part of the whole rewrite and re-work. What a pity I've been studying Picasso, because the next one is the one at Rodin's studio.

So in the revised chapters, Penny meets some bouquinistes, loses a parkour chase after a book thief, goes to the steampunk cabaret which she has to sit out after her injury during the chase, Huxley talks about the Bateau-Lavoir. A talk about comic books, Nathan drops by to taunt her about the stolen book, they go to the Beaubourg and get talking about Rodin, Penny opens the book again to...

Yeah. The book that got stolen out of her hands three chapters ago. Whoops!

I'm juggling so many threads in this book, and I'm not really sure where the beats are going to fall. I might or might not have a whole scene in one of the pedestrian passages/shopping arcades that is also a rematch with the parkour book thief -- so even the chapter scheme for Part II is a bit up for grabs. 

I'm also hating just how many scenes are nothing but people sitting around in cafes discussing art. So much, it is hard to remember that this was my entire scheme for this book; that there wasn't going to be the heavy action of the first, or the lavish descriptions of the third, but...people sitting around in cafes talking about art.