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[cblj_backup]

2400 words on VoA tonight! \o/

Never mind that a significant chunk of that was the introduction of a character I didn't know would exist until he did. I'm not worried! He will have a role to play in the story.

As much as I love the story and the worldbuilding, VoA is undoubtedly my problem child. Every single plot advancement is a struggle; writing scenes can be hard, but usually not quite this hard. It's getting easier as I settle further into the story and hammer out the details, but damn. Carry isn't making it easy on me. Then again, Carry wouldn't...

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[amand-r.livejournal.com]

I find that whenever my plot is struggling, I kill off a bunch of characters.

I kid, I kid.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

NIHILISM AND MISERY! :D

Actually, I had a character death planned, but I'm not sure if it's going to work now....

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

DOES THE DEATH CONTAIN ANY HOPE? LIKE A NUGGET IN THE CENTER. A HOPE-FILLED GOOEY CENTER BURIED IN THE MORASS OF POINTLESS DEATH AND MISERY?

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

IT CONTAINED RAINBOWS, KITTENS, AND HUGS.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

THERE IS NOTHING BAD IN THAT.

Actually I sat here and tried to imagine the most gruesome death possible that involved all three of those, and it was LOLARIOUS.

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

SEE? HOPE IN THE FACE OF GRUESOME DEATH!

I was more picturing all those things bursting out of the body.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's where I went, and right before he died, he whispered, in a cinematic close up, "Taste the rainbow."

[copperbadge.livejournal.com]

It's the little details that make you a master of craft.

[amand-r.livejournal.com]

IT'S A FISH-EYE LENS.