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Chapter 23: Lies and sweet things
In which everyone has a little lie to share, but they all have good reasons.
I should write this postmortem before I forget about it. Writing this is very interesting to me, because while I might mostly know what I'm doing while I'm writing, I don't really notice a lot of things until afterwards (yes, even after about 10 rounds of revision) (most of my writing time is revising, I revise each chapter for about a week's worth of time). Writing this helps a lot with finding out what I need to pick up in another chapter.
Not that I needed much of it for this chapter, though, this one was mostly following the outline. And, oh, I had stupid amounts of fun being contrarian to my own outline and pushing scenes towards things they were not really meant to do. There were also just Fun With Words moments.
That first Lumine fragment in which she isn't seeing things, so I have to rely on what she thinks is going on? I loved doing that.
Diluc trying to piece together things and noticing it doesn't really matters because he's worried about her and will Be There regardless? Lovely. Fun with words all of it.
Kaeya acting like a dick to Diluc while trying to communicate, then turning around and being stupidly in love with Albedo? Yes, please.
I don't have many things to say plot-wise, because this is a "moving things along" chapter. If this story was a tabletop RPG, this would be the session in which the players run around like headless chickens before they find out what they really need to do. Since that isn't as much fun to read as it is to play, I chose to focus on Diluc and Lumine, on how they'll rebuild their relationship.
There's still much water to sail until we see land, though, so all I can offer is some sweetness to offset the exposition fest of this chapter. I truly hope the readers had fun.
Next chapter, though? Next chapter I'll have some real fun.
Chapter 23: Lies and sweet things
In which everyone has a little lie to share, but they all have good reasons.
I should write this postmortem before I forget about it. Writing this is very interesting to me, because while I might mostly know what I'm doing while I'm writing, I don't really notice a lot of things until afterwards (yes, even after about 10 rounds of revision) (most of my writing time is revising, I revise each chapter for about a week's worth of time). Writing this helps a lot with finding out what I need to pick up in another chapter.
Not that I needed much of it for this chapter, though, this one was mostly following the outline. And, oh, I had stupid amounts of fun being contrarian to my own outline and pushing scenes towards things they were not really meant to do. There were also just Fun With Words moments.
That first Lumine fragment in which she isn't seeing things, so I have to rely on what she thinks is going on? I loved doing that.
Diluc trying to piece together things and noticing it doesn't really matters because he's worried about her and will Be There regardless? Lovely. Fun with words all of it.
Kaeya acting like a dick to Diluc while trying to communicate, then turning around and being stupidly in love with Albedo? Yes, please.
I don't have many things to say plot-wise, because this is a "moving things along" chapter. If this story was a tabletop RPG, this would be the session in which the players run around like headless chickens before they find out what they really need to do. Since that isn't as much fun to read as it is to play, I chose to focus on Diluc and Lumine, on how they'll rebuild their relationship.
There's still much water to sail until we see land, though, so all I can offer is some sweetness to offset the exposition fest of this chapter. I truly hope the readers had fun.
Next chapter, though? Next chapter I'll have some real fun.
