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threading_in_dreamsOf masks and dances
Chapter 25: Ripples and swells
In which our heroes find their way around the darkness.
It took me a whole day to notice I kept some sort of thematic semblance from the last chapter name. Huh. Now I guess it's on purpose.
Anyway, this was another chapter that was mostly already written. Because I wrote it while I should be writing the previous chapter. I also worked on 26 while I was supposed to be working on this one and am now working on 27 instead of 26, so I guess this is a weird habit.
The thing about the Abyss arc is that I have so many things I want to show about my idea for the Abyss in this fic, but in order to show that I need to write the cool things inside scenes that actually move the plot. That's a lot of work for someone that just wants to drop shinies in front of readers' feet and fly away cawing.
This chapter in specific needed to establish where everyone was emotionally and spark up the relationship conflicts that will be developed later on. Doing that and sprinkling setting around is easy, even fun. So much that I went ahead and wrote extra 7k words of that, which I'll have to fix now because next chapter I have to actually move plot and tighten conflict.
I guess I could have a nice action sequence as a treat, but honest, I just want to write Diluc, Lumine and Childe being soft with each other.
Can't, though. That would be chapter 27.
Chapter 25: Ripples and swells
In which our heroes find their way around the darkness.
It took me a whole day to notice I kept some sort of thematic semblance from the last chapter name. Huh. Now I guess it's on purpose.
Anyway, this was another chapter that was mostly already written. Because I wrote it while I should be writing the previous chapter. I also worked on 26 while I was supposed to be working on this one and am now working on 27 instead of 26, so I guess this is a weird habit.
The thing about the Abyss arc is that I have so many things I want to show about my idea for the Abyss in this fic, but in order to show that I need to write the cool things inside scenes that actually move the plot. That's a lot of work for someone that just wants to drop shinies in front of readers' feet and fly away cawing.
This chapter in specific needed to establish where everyone was emotionally and spark up the relationship conflicts that will be developed later on. Doing that and sprinkling setting around is easy, even fun. So much that I went ahead and wrote extra 7k words of that, which I'll have to fix now because next chapter I have to actually move plot and tighten conflict.
I guess I could have a nice action sequence as a treat, but honest, I just want to write Diluc, Lumine and Childe being soft with each other.
Can't, though. That would be chapter 27.
