The story behind the story: Chapter 26
Chapter 26, you nearly ended me. I had about half a page written. I didn't like it, but I had so little time left. I showed it to A and she essentially said, yeah, pretty much sucks. In conversation with her I found where I wanted to go with it, and it took me four more attempts to get my feet under me and find the path through the chapter. So here's to A, without whom the chapter wouldn't have gotten written. 
The thing I find so amusing is that Sir and a couple of the commenters have said this is the best chapter yet, and I ripped this puppy out in record time with no room to spare for rewrites or reconsiderations, at ALL (total writing time including screwing-around and dinner time: About 4 hours). What you see in that chapter is very close to the way it originally came through my fingers into the laptop, more so than any other chapter in the series so far.
An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom, The Drifting Isle Chronicles and Scryer's Gulch by Lynn Siprelle writing as MeiLin Miranda are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License.
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Quod Erat Demonstrandum
What's in your mind is what we all really want to be reading. Don't let your fingers get in the way so much. Trust me on this one!
Trust everyobody, then cut the cards.
-Anonymous
if that were the case
You'd have read the version that sucked!
Sometimes a little deliberation is a good thing, at least in the writing.
In the plotting, frequently *I* am taken by surprise. The long-term arc is set; I know where we're going, I know exactly where we're going. In fact, I'm already writing the bare bones of the end just in case something happens to me. I don't want to leave you guys hanging. But how we get there? The details of character? It's revealing itself as we go.
I loved the hint into
I loved the hint into Teacher's origin. What did he do to the Lovers, I wonder, to deserve such a fate?
--The Good Doctor, Morganes
I've done that
Occasionally I need people to bounce my writing off of too. I'm glad you're putting so much effort into making the Intimate History good, but try not to overdo it, mmkay?
I'm no end table, I'm a nightstand.
Well, it was indeed good! It
Well, it was indeed good! It felt urgent! Especially Temmin's plea. I was very stirred by the feeling of this chapter!
Who is A?
Daughter A? Are your kids reading this?
GOOD HEAVENS NO!
I always refer to the kids here as No1 Daughter and No2 Daughter. I shudder at the thought. My goodness, you know me better than that, manoki! *shaking finger*
For the record, neither of their names start with "A"; A is the pseudonym my RL best friend uses here. She doesn't comment much because she sees me several times a week live and in person, but her icon is the Venus de Milo here.
The girls know Mama writes something they're not old enough to read. No2 doesn't care because she still insists she can't read (she can, she just prefers to have others do it for her) and isn't old enough to be interested in this sort of thing anyway. No1 is, but is rather grossed out whenever she runs across similar stuff and keeps a wide berth by nature. She knows at a glance what this site looks like and where she could find it, but has an extremely strong moral compass; if I tell her she's not supposed to read something, she doesn't. It's weird. I know No2 will NOT be that way. I wish No1 were that obedient about stuff like cleaning her room!
Sir and I NEVER discuss the more intimate details of the story in front of the girls. We'll either take a walk, or do it in instant message, the modern parents' little helper.
:Waving wildly at Manoki:
O HAI! Is me! Nicetameetcha! Love your halloween belly! Did you have a belly cast made? I sometimes almost wish I had done, but then again, no.
Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common. --Dorothy Parker
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