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I just finished chapter 8, and we stand on the very threshold of the Slow Palace. Hoorah! I've been conceiving of the forthcoming scenes as the center of mass of the book, though by simple page count they may mark the end of the first third or so—certainly a keystone, anyway, or a significant fulcrum for change. End Of Book One, if I were doing that sort of thing. When I was writing in first person (in the abandoned draft), I was planning to have the narrative "catch up" to the narrator there.
But all those scenes are coming up. What I've just finished doing is dropping one of my hole cards onto the felt, rather earlier than I expected to—I thought that that little secret would come out after the aforementioned keystone, but it squirmed very naturally and unstoppably out onto the page tonight, largely because we're starting to meet people who know too much to keep things believably hidden. It's still a bit misleading, I hope, and readers who think closely about the timeline will know not to jump to conclusions. This also brought the chapter to a halt sooner than I expected, but that's not a bad thing.
Tomorrow: a long wait, and attendant discussion, in the Gladiary. (N.B.: This will be the first time that word appears on the internet, according to Google.) [Edit: it took them less than nine hours to index it.]
But all those scenes are coming up. What I've just finished doing is dropping one of my hole cards onto the felt, rather earlier than I expected to—I thought that that little secret would come out after the aforementioned keystone, but it squirmed very naturally and unstoppably out onto the page tonight, largely because we're starting to meet people who know too much to keep things believably hidden. It's still a bit misleading, I hope, and readers who think closely about the timeline will know not to jump to conclusions. This also brought the chapter to a halt sooner than I expected, but that's not a bad thing.
Tomorrow: a long wait, and attendant discussion, in the Gladiary. (N.B.: This will be the first time that word appears on the internet, according to Google.) [Edit: it took them less than nine hours to index it.]
