Difficult decisions · 1:22am Dec 22nd, 2013
Chapter 10 is at 9,000 words so far, and hopefully will be on track for my Christmas day due date.
That said... this last scene is being a little difficult! I'm revealing a significant (ish) bit of history and I know what I want to write... but as I do so, I keep getting ideas of new threads I could weave into it. I don't normally have any trouble with the actual direction of the story, but then, not much has been added to the setting since early on.
I'm not going to say what I'm waffling on, of course, because whatever I pick was obviously my intent from the very beginning and to suggest otherwise would be slader upon this clearly perfect story—but still, in an alternate universe where I'm allowed to change my mind on things, I have to wonder just how stretched people's capacity for revelation is, and if perhaps one or two more would be four too far. We're still riding the effects of dragons and librararchies, and things are only going to get piled on from here on out.
Edit: The award for most vague and useless blog post of the day goes to this one, I guess 
Ah, go ahead and do it. Dragons and librarchies have mostly just served as flavoring so far for the real meat of the story. They weren't exactly things that turned everything upside down, like the nature of Twilight's relationship with the stars did and you always need fresh new flavors for when the old ones wear out their welcome.
Just retroactively invent time travel. That should either fix all your problems or instantly annihilate the universe. If the second occurs, then use your other universe for the story instead. Win/Win!
The more stuff you weave into the story the more you'll need to write to explain it; I'll take my chance at having more of my favorite story on Fimfiction any day, go for it!
Weave them in like you weave bacon strips!
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mmmm crunchy!
Update by Christmas? I WISH TO READ YOUR WORDS.
Speaking from a physiciste's point of view, the less rules the better. Explanation should serve to simplify things; the more you can explain with a single law, the better that law is.
So my advice is to only add stuff that answers more questions than it raises, in the long term. (It's fine to only give half the explanation, and give the rest later -- doing so fuels curiosity.)