Status report: Well, I have a confession.
I was at the midpoint of DARKENED TABULA.
After starting ever so slowly, my editing and rewriting, as well as the story itself, took off. And it flowed. There were two narrators in this one like DARKCHILDE. It was hard getting used to Ebony's voice again. I was so sure I would go back over her sections again and make more changes. Meanwhile, I found reluctantly that Daniel's voice I nailed perfectly. Again.
I was getting the emotional beats again. I couldn't wait to dive into Daniel's. I had recently rewatched the cancelled show DOLLHOUSE. One of my disappointments in Season 2 was that as the season progressed, it was clear that Echo, Eliza Dushku's character, was becoming her own person. And that person was on a collision course with Caroline, the person she was before she was forced into the Dollhouse. So what was more important, the body (Echo) or the soul (Caroline)? If they were two different people who deserved to be in the body? To die? It was heady stuff...that if I remember correctly was dealt with in a minute scene in the deleted scenes on the Season 2 box set.
There was a lot of that I saw in Daniel's arc in DARKENED TAUBLA. That would come in handy.
I had arrived at one of my major plot points. All that I had been building exploded at a meeting between all of the officials that run the dystopian world that I had created. A lot of what I've set up in the novel was set to head off in a new direction. However, I had decided to write a new book. With that in mind, I felt the scene was too major of a scene to explode in Book 3.
It also was Ursula's physical entrance. Her presence was felt all through the novel, but here she stepped onto stage. Without that scene, there was no reason for her to be in the book.
Anyone who has been with me since I've created Ursula knew...that was not happening. Divas got what they want. :D :D
So I came to a compromise. Now I was about to see...if it paid off...
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