Christmas Vacation Approaches and a Journey Must be Written · 5:36pm Dec 2nd, 2019
I will be out of college in about two weeks for Christmas Vacation. During that time, I will enter the well-known WRITING OVERDRIVE time where I spew out hundreds of thousands of words. Many of you probably never see that since I use these OVERDRIVE times to create a massive backlog. This Christmas vacation's goal is simple: write the final movie chapter of Songs of the Spheres: 154: Journey. I have purposefully not written it yet, so as to let the readers have some influence on what the last big adventure will be. As such, the only solidified plot point at this juncture is 'the heroes are on a very long journey and they encounter some unknown thing or things.' So I've created a bit of a survey:
https://forms.gle/ETNdoUexYrgvbVvp6
The question is simple: what sort of plot threads, ideas, character moments, or drama would you like to see in this, the last of moments? Feel free to respond as many times as you want. I will not use all ideas, but I do want to give you all one last treat when we get there. One last hurrah for everything. And yes, you can suggest things that happen in the drafts, naturally.
There are about two weeks left before I close the survey and start writing. I would have preferred to wait a bit, but since the current update schedule has SotS ending in March, this might be the only time I get to do it. To write this Final Journey. Let's see where it takes us.
-GM, master of Infinity Train of Christmas.
Seeing this as a movie chapter, this is gonna be quite the treat ^^
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While the submisisons were supposed to be anonymous, I know full well that you were the one who submitted all the "Bessa" suggestions. Yes, they were difficult to understand, but in other conversations with you and through the magic of the internet, I did figure it out.
And I've told you why it doesn't work before.
Bessa, as a Builder, is dead. Has been dead since the official creation of the Tower. Any worship of her or placement of her as a god is simply people after the fact revering her - like they revere Gan, despite him being dead as well. Bessa and Gan are nothing more than names of legend and constructors of the Tower. With the rest of their race, they perished in its construction.
There is no need to bring a second name into the picture. Gan is all you need. Anything more would overcomplicate unnecessarily. Considering how tiny Bessa's article on the Dark Tower wiki is, she wasn't that important to begin with. Goddess of all life? Even if she may be the one who defined life in the Tower, life existed before the Tower, so she's not required for it's existence.
So no, your suggestions were not accepted.
-GM, master of thorns.