Chapter 6/7 A/N · 12:40am Sep 11th, 2012
So here's the authors notes for chapters 6 & 7, for anyone who actually finds that sort of thing interesting. I was going to get it up at lunch today, but shit...lunch, you know?
As has been stated earlier, chapter 7 is really the second half of chapter 6. The reason it is chapter 6 and chapter 7, instead of being just chapter 6, is because the word count ended up at almost 18k words (final count 17,706), which would have A) Made for a stupid long chapter and B) I'd still be trying to edit it, and probably drinking myself to death in the process. The formatting makes it seem a little disjointed if you approach it from the previous chapters, but I think it works out pretty alright.
I'm going to go on record and say that of the two of them, chapter 6 pleases me the least. I had a pretty good idea for a sort of gag scene where people are coming to the house and everyone's a little freaked out and maybe it looks like they're in danger or something, but it turns out they get a new T.V. That's what the first part of chapter 6 started out as, but then I started thinking that it would make for a good opportunity to show how having strangers come to the house for the first time might make them feel, after which the whole thing sort of got out of control. I mean, how realistic is it that they don't see anybody other than their father ever? Unfortunately the whole thing sort of feels out of place. Meh.
Past that I know that there's some tensing issues with chapter 6, which I will eventually get around to fixing. Chapter 7 was funner to write, especially the parts where Tia gets all loopy and goes on an adventure. And that's about all I can think of to say for now. I'll be cobbling a framework for chapter 8 together this week, and will get started on it very soon. Have a good one, everybody.
