Deep dive into Chapter Fourteen, and I realize I am uneasy about some things in the sequences. I took the whole thing back down to a beat sheet and then began filling in. Once again, the sequences did change. Plus I am left with uncertainty as to whether the rest hangs together. Still not completely done integrating what was left of the previous annotated beat sheet with all the text.
I am discerning hidden patterns and cross-references that I didn’t see before. How certain things set up other things. The one thing I can’t quite figure out yet is how she thinks of sending AERIE into the sun. What is her train of thought there? It’s no longer enough just to have a character say, “I have an idea.” It’s got to come out of the mulch of the story, not out of the moss in the writer’s mind.
A science fiction writer on a TV special told me about the Balonium, the mysterious substance-McGuffin, that goes along with the Handwavium (accompanied by the gesture), the thing you use as a distraction.
In a recent dream, I asked somebody if they liked the book. They said they didn’t. Why not? “It’s a comic book.” Full of Balonium and Handwavium.
I don’t know what I would be doing if I didn’t have it to play with.
Eclectic Magpie 