Kettan learned more about Will than Will would have preferred tonight. None of it was bad, but some of it left Will pretty stressed.
Tomorrow I have to get to the bit about the nightmares—that’ll be the end of the current chapter.
Tonight, though, 666 words.
How about you?
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790 words on September 2nd. Now that they’re both awake, and feeling much better, Erthel confronts Faurel with the importance of what they’ve noticed about Mr. Bad Guy during their otherworldly experience. It’s true that the vision they had is made of symbols created by Erthel’s mind, so it’s not like “viewing” actual memories – but it helped Erthel remember more clearly a very important detail about what really happened the night her mother disappeared. A little, seemingly unimportant detail now clearly indicating something decidedly… um, weird to say the least about Mr. Bad Guy.
And this is not an improvised twist, mind you. This is something that’s been clear in my mind right from the start. Only they didn’t know it. Heh.
Excellent on the twist. It’s gorgeous watching something like that coming together in your own head.
Fleshing out the new bad guy. Still. This is a major, major character inserted into an already crowded story, so he has to fit like a missing piece of clockwork or he’s history. So I’m spending the extra time blocking out his scenes, figuring out places I can give him other people’s dialogue instead of having to write more scenes, and getting to the heart of who this man is, what he believes in, and most importantly – why he would sell himself and his people out to primordial spirits of evil.
That sounds like a huge, fascinating WHY.
It is! Especially because I think this new character is going to be very useful for shedding more light on the hero – they have very similar backgrounds and beliefs, and I can see a sympathy or even a friendship building, that is going to force the hero to make tough choices when the guy’s mask comes off…