I mean, it is pretty long but not that long. Certainly, at this point, the largest continuous narrative I have ever written, if I count all that I have that is not hosted on this website. In total, it will have, like, seven Acts or something. I have the entire plot figured out, for the most part, but just the other day I noticed a really unfortunate knot I will have to untie about halfway into the fourth Act. I am almost finished with the third Act at this time, which will probably work

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Those of us that have read about Trixie and Ditzy Doo eventually become aware of a few patterns.
Trixie is conceited and egotistical. But through some heroic arc or trial, finds herself softening her brash and forthright exterior. She confronts her own insecurities, and in doing so becomes stronger than she was before. And she ends the self-centered streak that is her obnoxiously announcing her own name everywhere she goes.
This does not happen in my story.

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At this point, I am mostly here to complain.
Those who have been reading my story "The Last Illusion" may know by now what I am talking about. The story is read out of a book. The book writes itself. But, "most" of the time, it is not a character. In fact, it seems literally incapable of treating itself as one.

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If I were to think back through all of the thinking I did about "The Last Illusion", I could probably point to a number of things as its inspiration. But, there is one thing that I think has stuck the hardest after all the visions and revisions.

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Truth is, most of the time I find adventure stories very dull. As if, while I read, there is something much more interesting happening later that I am anxious to get to. The beginning is interesting, the end is certainly something, but the middle? Characters and places that I will not be penalized for forgetting.
Though I am not some kind of intense literary scholar. My vocabulary may be exquisite, but by no means am I actually expert at this kind of thing.

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