You know what's weird?

Adding words to Act Two, that's what's weird.

I've been so focused on just finishing Act One that I'd started to think of the rest of Deathless a bit like Atlantis: awesome, inspiring, golden-hued and, ultimately, fictitious. Which, of course, it is, being a story, but not in the meta-sense. The story itself is real, it's just not about reality. At least, not in the traditional sense.

I should probably get some coffee in my system before I really start confusing myself.

While I'm wrapping up my search for an editor for the first act (with less than stellar success, I might add, but so be it), Act Two begins to take form. I'm struggling with the prologue concept,* but while I suss that mess in my head, the rest of the act is coming together.

It's weird, but it's cool.

Story goes live early next week, come Hell, high water, editor or other acts of random chance.

* Act One's prologue took place somewhere between one and two thousand years prior to current day. For the Act Two prologue, I can easily do the same thing with another scene out of the past, keeping my lovely literary parallelism while hinting at more story clues and providing a fun peek into historical Equestrian events. Alternatively, I can leap ahead to a current-day scene that might not get enough timely attention if I do it as an Interlude, but it's just not as compelling. The debate in my head grows furiously.