The End of Days: An Outline

( an outline )

My problem is that I keep thinking that nothing plot-related can happen until the seventh act of each part, and that is just not true. Things can, and should, happen spread out over the course of each section. I'm trying very hard to write using kishoutenketsu structure, so things don't have to happen by hitting the same notes as a three-act structure, but they still can change, and adapt.

The End of Days: The Paths Through Clouds pt. 1

Hurrah! Storytimes start! I am rediscovering the joy of pantsing the characterization! It results in things like huge chunks that I have to rewrite, because I realized that the only reason I was in this situation in the first place was because someone did something that was pretty OOC. Like Eiji waking up before noon, without someone having stepped on him. Asceticism is not a trait valued by his monastic order.

( not bad, not bad ... not good, but not bad )

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I like the last try a lot better. It's getting longer than I expected, although I feel like I have a lot better handle on Kephri, Chatma, and Eiji now. I suspect this is what Chaucer felt like after writing the first few Canterbury tales, and realizing that he still had 197 to go ...

eod: character meta

Happy Backup Day!

( storyline thoughts )

( relationship thoughts )