verbage: One Only v2

[jazzfish]

Words: 500ish
Total words: around 2600
Neat things: Coldsleep regulating gel hardens and shatters when you muck with it. Also, Eddison looks to be as unpleasant as Carter, in different ways.

This will be slow going for awhile. Adding a character doesn't double the complexity, it more than quadruples it. On top of the additional plot mucking to do I've got more relationships to track, more responses to actions to account for. Gah. More thinking and planning needed. I was hoping I could just bull through but that's looking less likely.

Comments

[queenoftheskies.livejournal.com]

YAY for words!

So, do you find that adding the new character adds a new plot thread? Or changes the threads you already have in place?

[jazzfish]

gah. Both. To be interesting she needs to have her own agenda, and it needs to be sufficiently distinct from everyone else's. (Or at least her methods need to be different.) So there's that. In addition she's going to affect the extant plot threads in ways I can't even see yet. I've already had to rewrite one scene in which the same things happen but in different ways...

The difficult thing about this is that I'm pretty certain it's going to end in more or less the same place, which makes the process of getting there somewhat awkward. Of course I might be wrong about that too.

[jude.livejournal.com]

sounds like adding a child to a classroom. XD

[jazzfish]

*snrk* Probably not unlike. And the new character isn't bothering to tell me what it is she wants yet, either, so far she's just freaking out all over the place...