Revision Scene 13: Unlucky for Some
The great climactic scene of the arc, slightly revised for physical feasibility of the parts that are supposed to be physically feasible. The Big Bad revealed in all its chaotic terror.
A running challenge through the rest of the story has been to avoid making every future encounter with BB into a relative damp squib. I still have work to do on those others. Power-ups are not an option because this is not that kind of story. I'm counting heavily on the unwritten "Triona's Way" arclet to bridge the gap between the obvious reasons to be scared of the Bad, and the right reasons to be scared of it. That aspect is all developed in the text already: unfortunately, it's developed as I discovered it, rather than as I want the reader to meet it.
This completes the revision of the Last Quest arc. I certainly haven't finalized every last dot and comma, but every part of this first section now describes exactly what happens, in pretty much exactly the way it's to be told. I have some standard polishing routines which I'll be running in parallel with the rewriting of the next arc, which have been so generally useful to me that I'll probably give them their own post in the fairly near future.
But they're almost mechanical. The big job of the revision is next: the sprawling, exploratory, and curate's-eggy mess that is the Fairfields Arc. It will be hard work - the scene correspondence isn't going to be one-to-one between drafts in this section, I know that much already! - and also it ought to be a lot of fun. Fairfields is, almost by definition, a place I love to visit.
For now I'm knocking off with one of the four big arcs completed, only three days behind schedule. Off to shop for a big bunch of travel I have coming up - and then to celebrate!
This entry originally posted on Dreamwidth at http://caper-est.dreamwidth.org/93125.html - comments preferred there, if you have a foot in both camps.
A running challenge through the rest of the story has been to avoid making every future encounter with BB into a relative damp squib. I still have work to do on those others. Power-ups are not an option because this is not that kind of story. I'm counting heavily on the unwritten "Triona's Way" arclet to bridge the gap between the obvious reasons to be scared of the Bad, and the right reasons to be scared of it. That aspect is all developed in the text already: unfortunately, it's developed as I discovered it, rather than as I want the reader to meet it.
This completes the revision of the Last Quest arc. I certainly haven't finalized every last dot and comma, but every part of this first section now describes exactly what happens, in pretty much exactly the way it's to be told. I have some standard polishing routines which I'll be running in parallel with the rewriting of the next arc, which have been so generally useful to me that I'll probably give them their own post in the fairly near future.
But they're almost mechanical. The big job of the revision is next: the sprawling, exploratory, and curate's-eggy mess that is the Fairfields Arc. It will be hard work - the scene correspondence isn't going to be one-to-one between drafts in this section, I know that much already! - and also it ought to be a lot of fun. Fairfields is, almost by definition, a place I love to visit.
For now I'm knocking off with one of the four big arcs completed, only three days behind schedule. Off to shop for a big bunch of travel I have coming up - and then to celebrate!
This entry originally posted on Dreamwidth at http://caper-est.dreamwidth.org/93125.html - comments preferred there, if you have a foot in both camps.