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This story has a lot of characters (it should, it spans eons and generations and there are massive entanglements all around).
In the course of writing so far I've already killed off a few. There's one character in particular, no matter how many times I write her, she always ends up dying. Her death usually spurns things for other characters, so it's a motivator for the prose, but I also feel bad that she ends up dying repeatedly. She's not one of those characters you enjoy snuffing out as an author. She's one of those characters you want to see more of in the real world. Nobel and sure, confident, always doing the right thing even to her own detriment. And yet, in this universe she cannot survive long.
Someone else has to ascend her throne.
I did some good writing today. I hadn't expected the prophets to play such a major thread throughout, but I ended up writing pieces that belong in three of the four books. A total through-line regarding the prophets and their subplot which I never quite figured out the first time I tried to tell this story. It came together today, though the ending is still hanging out in the fourth book waiting for me to pick a direction.
Some of the decisions I'm making are... Quite a bit different from how I've told the story before. Some of the decisions have to be and it's good. Some of the plot points are brutal and that's even better. The story pieces are fitting together more snuggly every time I take a new direction. I kind of can't wait to edit the old prose and marry the material. I think I'll have something really amazing in the end.
Almost 13k today. Feeling confident even though I have a lot going on this month.
In the course of writing so far I've already killed off a few. There's one character in particular, no matter how many times I write her, she always ends up dying. Her death usually spurns things for other characters, so it's a motivator for the prose, but I also feel bad that she ends up dying repeatedly. She's not one of those characters you enjoy snuffing out as an author. She's one of those characters you want to see more of in the real world. Nobel and sure, confident, always doing the right thing even to her own detriment. And yet, in this universe she cannot survive long.
Someone else has to ascend her throne.
I did some good writing today. I hadn't expected the prophets to play such a major thread throughout, but I ended up writing pieces that belong in three of the four books. A total through-line regarding the prophets and their subplot which I never quite figured out the first time I tried to tell this story. It came together today, though the ending is still hanging out in the fourth book waiting for me to pick a direction.
Some of the decisions I'm making are... Quite a bit different from how I've told the story before. Some of the decisions have to be and it's good. Some of the plot points are brutal and that's even better. The story pieces are fitting together more snuggly every time I take a new direction. I kind of can't wait to edit the old prose and marry the material. I think I'll have something really amazing in the end.
Almost 13k today. Feeling confident even though I have a lot going on this month.