Random Ramblings CCCLX · 9:45pm Apr 11th, 2019
IN WHICH I'M BACK SORT OF
Greetings, Earthlings. Have an old meme.
YouTube is now 14 years old. I remember when it was new. I'm old. That has bearing on this post, after the jump…
As none of you know, I kept my promise and posted the latest chapter of Annie this morning. I apologize for missing Monday's entry -- however, I did say it would be late as I spent a good chunk of the day driving home from Texas, and have spent most of my time since then asleep.
At this point, we've already hit the technical climax of the story, but there's still more story to go. It was never just about defeating the Corruption. Arguably the really important part is yet to be published.
I should have done this on paper earlier rather than just keeping it in my head, but I sketched out a rudimentary timeline to make sure the chapter slated for this coming Monday lines up. It does, but I'm strongly considering rewriting it. Chapter Eight is one of those chapters where a lot of time passes, which is itself important, but what happens within that span isn't so much.
That's why it's the shortest chapter.
I also want to mention Anton Chekhov. More specifically, the trope known as "Chekhov's Gun". The gist of it is:
If you show a gun in Act 1, it better be fired by the end of the play.
The Soup Ladle is something of an example. Annie made such a big deal out of it, I simply had to make it more than just a thing to be searched for -- I gave the ladle a purpose, which I doubt either of the story's two readers saw coming.
One of the things mentioned by a reader about Annie is my obsessive attention to detail in that story as opposed to others. In fact, my Sunset stories have a lot of random details that become important down the line. Some have yet to pay off. But anyway, Annie represents my putting this to use within a single story rather than an anthology or universe, although it IS the foundational story for my Mayor Mare universe.
Chapter Seven has a number of little details which are extremely important.
One detail I regret leaving out is that the Moon Cultists, despite living next to the Tree of Harmony, don't venture near it. Granted at this point in history it's lost most of its power (thus why Twi et al give it back the Elements in S4), which is why all it's able to do is keep the Cult sane but doesn't stop their physical corruption.
Yeah, although I don't want to, I may have to rewrite Chapter Eight to fix what probably doesn't need fixing.
Oh, right. Perfume concert was a blast. But I'm beyond people'd out and just want to sleep for the next hundred years.
Also, spending time in the center of one of America's largest cities and encountering real homeless people gives me even less respect for the professional panhandlers who congregate on the north end of my town (where the mall, a Walmart, and several businesses are).
I'm sleepy now.
Peace out.
Glad you had so much fun at the concert! :D