Rook and Rose Book 3, Chapter 24
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swan_tower. . . I'm going to pretend I didn't start writing the progress blog for Chapter 25 instead of this one, despite that chapter not actually being done yet. >_< I know I talk about the writing of this book being remarkably non-linear, but really, that's a step too far.
I suspect some readers will find the structure of this chapter a little odd. The first scene contains a watershed moment -- the sort of thing you might normally expect at the end of a chapter. But it's part of what I discussed before, us having a plotline where everything isn't in the hands of our main characters. Trying to make a Big Satisfying Finale out of this moment would, we think, make it feel too pat. Instead it's a messy tangle that's being driven largely by characters who don't get pov, and the watershed here is more a shift in direction than the end of a journey, because this is the type of journey that doesn't end. The victory is in the turn, not the arrival.
Which isn't to say we don't have a cool watershed at the end as well, of course! We absolutely do, and it's one with much more intimate personal weight for our protagonists. A moment of grace, where they think they'll be able to do a good thing . . . and find they've managed something even better.
Word count: 175,000
Authorial sadism: Having to make your peace with something awful, so you can get past that to compassion.
Authorial amusement: "It's a good thing you're not the face of this operation."
BLR quotient: Rhetoric has its moment in the sun.
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/7ZAnUU)
I suspect some readers will find the structure of this chapter a little odd. The first scene contains a watershed moment -- the sort of thing you might normally expect at the end of a chapter. But it's part of what I discussed before, us having a plotline where everything isn't in the hands of our main characters. Trying to make a Big Satisfying Finale out of this moment would, we think, make it feel too pat. Instead it's a messy tangle that's being driven largely by characters who don't get pov, and the watershed here is more a shift in direction than the end of a journey, because this is the type of journey that doesn't end. The victory is in the turn, not the arrival.
Which isn't to say we don't have a cool watershed at the end as well, of course! We absolutely do, and it's one with much more intimate personal weight for our protagonists. A moment of grace, where they think they'll be able to do a good thing . . . and find they've managed something even better.
Word count: 175,000
Authorial sadism: Having to make your peace with something awful, so you can get past that to compassion.
Authorial amusement: "It's a good thing you're not the face of this operation."
BLR quotient: Rhetoric has its moment in the sun.
(originally posted at Swan Tower: https://is.gd/7ZAnUU)
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