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here is where I complain about chapter eleven...
word count: 27.5K
So chapter 10 had a 3-event outline where the first half of the chapter ended up being the journey to event #1 during which Scheherazade is fortuitously prevented from eating the wrong sort of fruit, is nice to a bird, and gains powers of Sight as a reward; which I suppose is not that unexpected, as she's been wandering around the land(s) of the dead for a while, and the second person she met asked if she was a shaman-in-training, on the grounds that no one else would be there. It's not as if I want characters so static they don't get changed by wandering around with the dead, but I'm just confused by the way my concept of the novel is getting distorted as I write it. And Argent, who's also wandering amongst the dead, is actually dead himself, so he's kind of stuck with being static. Although he's gained a random latinate ancestor, who's the grandson of Mars.
But the thing that's annoying me is that the chapter I've been working on all day (in between shipbuilding, for the boat races tomorrow) was originally labled "Cap 'o Rushes", which is a fairy tale sort of half-way between Cinderella and King Lear. Now admittedly, I had to leave the father part out of it, because effectively the children are all orphans at the moment, but so far the entire chapter has been politics, a press conference, a funeral and a coronation. And at 2.4K, Rahmah has just realized she's interested in the prince, who hates her entire family b/c her older sister inadvertantly usurped half his kingdom (the good half, too) and who several people suspect killed his father. Who was really not a nice person, but still.
They haven't even actually met yet. It's pathetic.
So chapter 10 had a 3-event outline where the first half of the chapter ended up being the journey to event #1 during which Scheherazade is fortuitously prevented from eating the wrong sort of fruit, is nice to a bird, and gains powers of Sight as a reward; which I suppose is not that unexpected, as she's been wandering around the land(s) of the dead for a while, and the second person she met asked if she was a shaman-in-training, on the grounds that no one else would be there. It's not as if I want characters so static they don't get changed by wandering around with the dead, but I'm just confused by the way my concept of the novel is getting distorted as I write it. And Argent, who's also wandering amongst the dead, is actually dead himself, so he's kind of stuck with being static. Although he's gained a random latinate ancestor, who's the grandson of Mars.
But the thing that's annoying me is that the chapter I've been working on all day (in between shipbuilding, for the boat races tomorrow) was originally labled "Cap 'o Rushes", which is a fairy tale sort of half-way between Cinderella and King Lear. Now admittedly, I had to leave the father part out of it, because effectively the children are all orphans at the moment, but so far the entire chapter has been politics, a press conference, a funeral and a coronation. And at 2.4K, Rahmah has just realized she's interested in the prince, who hates her entire family b/c her older sister inadvertantly usurped half his kingdom (the good half, too) and who several people suspect killed his father. Who was really not a nice person, but still.
They haven't even actually met yet. It's pathetic.
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