This is just to say...

[alexandraerin]

...that I ate your fucking plums and I'm not the least bit sorry that the last few chapters of Tales of MU Volume 1 are among the most difficult things I've had to write. I'm not talking about emotionally, at least not the emotions that people usually mean when they talk about how difficult it is to bring something to a close. For me this is a "moving forward" thing. There are some trade-offs. Skipping so much time means there are things that I won't get to cover directly that I might have wanted to, but I get to move on to other things. On the whole I'm happy about that.

No, the emotion is worry. I'm kind of glad I've had the distraction of The Gift of the Bad Guy to keep from obsessing over getting these chapters right. I mean, I'm emphatically not trying to wrap everything up with a neat little bow but there are certain things that I want to make sure get addressed, plot-wise and emotion-wise, before the end. What if I overlook something? What if I forget something? I know at a practical level the answer is nothing. I mean, it's not like there isn't going to be any chance to look backwards and fill in the gaps from the point of view of year two. But the worry is there.

Still, it's a lot smaller worry than I expected it to be. Again, I attribute that to how much of my worrying capacity has been occupied by other things, but also to how excited I am for volume 2. It's going to be a whole lot of fun.

Comments

[cielamara.livejournal.com]

You're not the only one who's totally excited for Volume Two of ToMU. :D

[carsonfiles.livejournal.com]

You know, those things that you wanted to cover but will end up skipping? I can think of two obvious ways to write & publish them, so I'm sure that if the writer brain doesn't disengage from those stories, you'll figure out a third that works even better.

[alexandraerin.livejournal.com]

I don't have to stretch myself to think of how to write and publish them. I could just stick them in the main site as Other Tales. But insofar as I have my one brain and two hands that can manage one keyboard and a computer screen between them, skipping ahead to Year Two means I'm not going to cover everything that would have been covered in Year One. Full stop.