Chapter 6 is rather long, as it reveals several sub-plots and wraps up others that had been simmering in the background. All this while framing the story's first large-scale action sequence. My editor and myself are hacking away at it currently.

For anyone who cares, I have included a short excerpt below:

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"Source" is an action-oriented novel. It really is. I'm quite impatient to get to the action, but I am so very fond of Chekov's Guns. So fond in fact I'm spending six chapters festooning the walls with them. Trust me, it'll make sense in later chapters. Nothing in my narrative gets wasted. It's actually ever so torturous for me, as a writer, spending so much time getting the coaster to the top of the hill. That's just my style. Hopefully it'll make the inevitable drop all the more satisfying.

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I always struggle with the perceived imbalance between verbosity and exposition. Mainly, how can I produce the desired narrative direction and foreshadowing with the least number of words? I cringe reading sentences with four adverbs. Reading paragraphs that are 70% prepositional phrase sometimes forces me to close my browser. Thus, one can understand my dilemma in writing a far-future Equestria that requires a ridiculous amount of descriptors to adequately engender.

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I've been toiling on several commissioned writing projects, and thus have not been working on any of my stories as of late. That should change over the next week as I complete them.

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