And the commentary has caught up! Or the main story has a lag. Doesn't matter. The two are synchronized again. Celebrate!
I needed Jackie and Lance to talk. I wasn't in the mood by the time I reached this chapter to have a full dialogue with characters moving and doing things so I don't have to keep writing "Jackie said" or "Lance said". I also established the instant messaging earlier, so an online chat made things easier. This was written near the end of November 2007, so I was drawing deep from the well. I couldn't figure things out so I went with the easy option.
NaNoWriMo is a beast to do, especially when starting out. Digital Magic was my second NaNo project and in a genre I don't normally read let alone write. I managed to get to 50 000 words, but I was pushing it in the final days. I had to stop and figure out where I was going. I've done that in later projects such as The Devil You Know, where I needed to step back to gain perspective. Digital Magic, though, wound up having enough problems that there wasn't any way for me to get to where I wanted.
The gap between Chapter 17 and the chapter coming tomorrow is the result of me giving up on a linear plot and having no idea on how to get to the ending I finally had in mind. I worked out a general idea of what happened, barring the romances that just weren't coming together. No details, just what I needed to get to where I wanted to be. Then I jumped to there.
Tomorrow, Jackie in trouble!
Friday, over at Psycho Drive-In, "Galactic Battles". a fan-made four setting crossover.
Saturday, over at The Seventh Sanctum, The Orville.
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