3 more submissions of Coin and Candle sent off, despite a small kitten sitting on the back of my neck.
Slight rewrite of the last few scenes of Gasoline to accommodate something which connects up all the plot of the story so far; a sudden inspiration which I'm really happy with.
All in all, not a bad day so far.
Well, I missed the snippet last week for reasons which this post'll make clear.
I've hit a difficult story point with regard to snippeting purposes.
Something has happened in Gasoline. A real turning point, after which none of the characters will be the same.
Now, the purpose of these snippets - as I see it - is to give the folk reading something fun to read; to keep me writing, as I feel a certain obligation to deliver a snippet; and to hopefully get a few folk interested in my story worlds.
But how much of the story do I tell?
At this point, if I show you the story-changing episode, does that spoil the story for you? I've only skimmed over the tale to this point, avoiding a couple of pretty deep spoilers, but this is a biggie.
I could skip forward a bit (when I've finished writing a bit more). But then the world will have changed, and you won't be able to avoid noticing that change. Because the characters will talk about it and react to it. Whatever I do, spoilers abound, so to speak.
Personally, I think the story-changing episode itself is great, if only as catharsis for myself. It injects a huge chunk of life into something which I was struggling with.
So, what to do... do I:
