Because, like I said yesterday, I have too many things to accomplish this year to waste any time being used and/or manipulated by selfish, inconsiderate idiots.
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I'm working my way through Chapter 14, which means that I have less than five chapters before I run out of material to rewrite, thus plunging me into the scary unknown of .... all new material. The fact that I have a plan for what happens later on only makes it marginally less scary. I think I'm about a month out from that frontier, at which point it'll be me and the notebook vs. the new material TO THE DEATH. At that point, I might be a little stressed out until I find a good groove. So please bear with me, in advance.
Season 3 looks to be an interesting creature. It picks up exactly where Season 2 leaves off, and by Chapter 18 pretty much every subplot that's running has advanced or escalated to the point of craziness. The big showdown in Chapter 18 is something I'm looking forward to getting back to. But then I have to figure out how to bring the season to the point where I think it should leave off, and that hasn't been all the way sussed out yet.
At some later point I might have to do a chapter, or at least a couple of scenes, that are Kelly-free if I'm going to get all the characters where I need them to be. I don't know how that's going to go. The benefit of staying with Kelly's perspective as much as possible (and so far, whenever I switch narrators, whoever is talking is talking right to Kelly) is that the reader only knows as much as Kelly does. The drawback is that I end up having to cover a lot of exposition where someone tells Kelly what's going on elsewhere, which I think I do well, but I don't want to overplay that hand.
I'm not sure if my idea for the character based on Jen is going to work out, if only because I don't know where to fit her into the already crowded cast of characters. I have, however, stolen an idea straight from my first date with Jen to use with another character: a high-stakes, winner takes all, best of 5 pool game between Kelly and a character I'm not naming right now (it isn't Alyssa, Gwen, or Quinn). That game did take place on our first date, almost a year ago now (wow), but the stakes were never collected. I can't really fault her for that, though, even though she didn't come through on a few other things during our six month entanglement, because .... I won. In the book, however, it's seen through to the conclusion.
I'm not totally sold on the Cowgirl thing either, but if I don't use her here, she'll definitely show up in some book sometime somewhere. Her character, like Veronica (Jen), would definitely be a scene-stealer, much like Alyssa and Gwen are right now (although, Rhonda totally steals most of Chapter 9 right away from Alyssa), and unless I find just the right thing for her to do, I'm not sure she'd be a great fit.
Season 3 also includes two of the three things that I'm the most antsy about including (the third is the blowjob at the end of Chapter one, which took balls of steel to actually put in there). One of them is a huge, major plot point that turns up in Chapters 17 and 18, and is fairly unavoidable. The other is the Alexis subplot, kicked off near the end of Season 2. It's made a lot more explicit in her scenes in upcoming chapters, and while it deals with something I've been fascinated with for as long as I can remember, it isn't something I ever discuss. Even as I write this, it makes me a little twitchy.
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And I'll leave you tonight with my personal pick for the hottest woman in all of comic books, Elsa Bloodstone. She's a very recent pick, and not a character I was at all familiar with before having just read the awe-inspiring Nextwave series. Not only is she exceptionally attractive, but she's goddam badass, and you know that just turns me on. As an added bonus, she's also British.
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See you tomorrow.
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