And there's more...

I've definitely worked out where short story two wants to go, but short story three took off last night, with 2300 words written between 11 and 2AM. It's now the strongest concept of the three, as well as more comfortably fitting the detective story mould than story one, which was more of a 'why are these things happening to me?' than a whodunnit. I also managed to scare myself, it's far too easy to think of ways of weaponising consumer drones, and much more difficult to think of ways of cost effectively stopping them. It definitely plugs very well into my existing character concept, and creates a strong initial driver for her career trajectory (much stronger than 'she did work experience and we liked her enough to keep her')..

I think the story is likely to run around 6000 words, assuming I resist the inevitable temptation to turn it into a novel.I'd expect to get the first draft completed while I'm up here, but it's likely to need some significant research to beef it up once I'm home.