[The 41-Second Goddess] Possible Epilogue · 5:52am Nov 22nd, 2020
EDIT: Possible epilogue is now definite sequel, that way I can write what I want without breaking the form of the current story. So ignore this, lol
So I am a bit conflicted. I really like the Shot/Chaser duality and it seems optimal in the way that adding another section to the story would make it worse. But I also want to write an epilogue taking place centuries in the future? What do you think? Would it detract too much from the work?
The main character will be a young-ish griffin agent who is the latest to be assigned the 41-Second Goddess desk, which has the distinction of being by far the oldest continuously active desk in the Agency's far future. It will be his first day, and he will be very unsure that he has what it takes to fill his predecessor's shoes. The transcript of the message in the first chapter will be an in-world document, and a lot of the mileage of the proposed epilogue will come from just how it is seen by the future civilization centuries after the fact.
But I am worried that if I don't pull it off right it will drag down the impact of the first two chapters.
To be honest, part of this is so that I can also add in a Footnotes chapter for the transcript document so that I can put in more obscure references. So that will be updated at the same time as the Epilogue, and that way I don't end up bumping a story just for footnotes.
There is also something neat in that completing it with the epilogue will also make the Dark/Comedy/Sci-Fi genre tags a description of the chapters themselves.
I think adding anything else to it would just make it bloated. It'll detract from the punchline the same way a falling piano in slapstick would be worsened if you're then shown the victim sobbing in their final moments because they won't see their daughter again.
It might still be effective at eliciting something, but the joke (or story, as the case may be) is worse for it.
I'd recommend making it either a separate story or a blog, personally.
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Haha, I feel dumb now. A sequel story + blog post is exactly the solution. Thanks!