*whimper*
I just realized that I will have to write seven chapters in a row (which doesn't count the four Intermissions that sprinkle among and after them) where really, really bad stuff happens- torture, character death, extreme gore, insanity, ickiness, and the final monster under the bed.
And those are not as far away as I thought they were, because, due to plot developments I didn't plan at the time, like Jing-Xi going home early, there aren't as many chapters before the badness begins.
As much as I'm looking forward to writing these- because the ending itself has been inside my head for more than a year- I really don't want to write them at the same time, if that makes any sense.
At least the next few chapters are happy ones.
The rest of the story looks like this (bolded titles come from "The Hymn of Proserpine" by Swinburne, which also gives the story its title, and in almost all cases that's a sign of extreme nastiness):
70) Hogwarts
71) Unneutral Ground
72) Nothing Gold Can Stay
73) World of Green and Gold
74) The First Day of Spring
Intermission: Love Grows Bitter With Treason
75) A Mind In Decay
76) Te Moruituri Salutant
Intermission: Chunks of Stale Madness
77) All The Joys Before Death
78) And, Standing, Look to the End
Intermission: Brewing
79) And Death Is a Sleep
Intermission: Light of Ruin
80) All So Fair That Were Broken
81) Back From the Abyss
82) A Silver Splendour, A Flame
83) Gloryflower Owls
Intermission: Snapshots
84) A Toast to the Swift Years
85) Ave Atque Vale
Epilogue: In Memoriam
It's so hard to realize it is almost done.
And those are not as far away as I thought they were, because, due to plot developments I didn't plan at the time, like Jing-Xi going home early, there aren't as many chapters before the badness begins.
As much as I'm looking forward to writing these- because the ending itself has been inside my head for more than a year- I really don't want to write them at the same time, if that makes any sense.
At least the next few chapters are happy ones.
The rest of the story looks like this (bolded titles come from "The Hymn of Proserpine" by Swinburne, which also gives the story its title, and in almost all cases that's a sign of extreme nastiness):
70) Hogwarts
71) Unneutral Ground
72) Nothing Gold Can Stay
73) World of Green and Gold
74) The First Day of Spring
Intermission: Love Grows Bitter With Treason
75) A Mind In Decay
76) Te Moruituri Salutant
Intermission: Chunks of Stale Madness
77) All The Joys Before Death
78) And, Standing, Look to the End
Intermission: Brewing
79) And Death Is a Sleep
Intermission: Light of Ruin
80) All So Fair That Were Broken
81) Back From the Abyss
82) A Silver Splendour, A Flame
83) Gloryflower Owls
Intermission: Snapshots
84) A Toast to the Swift Years
85) Ave Atque Vale
Epilogue: In Memoriam
It's so hard to realize it is almost done.