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Kaleidoscope Chapter: Young Bones and Old Thorns
Killer-Kate and Luke Lackland: 2,000 words in two scenes, finishing Garcastle from the viewpoints of Bonecold Refugee and Hero-Father. Yes, I did need to give the latter a turn after all, and I turned off the computer last night wondering how I was going to do that without diminishing him. Seeing him from outside is one thing, but "he that has been what he's been"...? Dangerous, dangerous to get the reader in too close to him.
And then as I was ready to drop off I remembered what kind of story this really is.
So this morning I got up, and wrote his scene in undiluted fairy-tale idiom, and that gave me both the directness and the distance I needed. And left me the energy for Bonecold Refugee's simultaneous scene, too.
One more scene only, and this chapter's done. All the big crunches are now just around the corner.
In further fairy-tale developments, Jack's wireless router went haywire, and he did this and that, and presently it worked again. And a week later, Jack's wireless router went haywire again, and he did this and that, and presently it worked just as before. And Jack thought, "I know what comes next, and it's probably not a good idea to wait for the payoff!" So in the interests of remaining Internetted, I shall just be doing some techno-shopping Real Soon Now.
And then as I was ready to drop off I remembered what kind of story this really is.
So this morning I got up, and wrote his scene in undiluted fairy-tale idiom, and that gave me both the directness and the distance I needed. And left me the energy for Bonecold Refugee's simultaneous scene, too.
One more scene only, and this chapter's done. All the big crunches are now just around the corner.
In further fairy-tale developments, Jack's wireless router went haywire, and he did this and that, and presently it worked again. And a week later, Jack's wireless router went haywire again, and he did this and that, and presently it worked just as before. And Jack thought, "I know what comes next, and it's probably not a good idea to wait for the payoff!" So in the interests of remaining Internetted, I shall just be doing some techno-shopping Real Soon Now.