I just reread 938 Seconds Per Seconds for probably the 5th or 6th time, simply because its such a great story that I can't help but come back to again; the writing, the characterization, its immaculate. 10/10. Is there anything from the original concept/1st draft that you cut but are still fond of?
(938 Seconds Per Second)
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa thank you!!!! 🥺🥺🥺.
As for cut stuff, there isn't really any cut written material. (It was more like I got stalled-out while first trying to write 938sps before I discovered how pivotal Sampson was to everything.)
But I absolutely did toy with an entirely different premise to execute the time dilation plotline with. I believe my original idea was about a young girl who crash lands on a planet, and strangers find her, and she's distraught because she's been separated from her father. Her father was getting them away from danger and could only send her, and he sent her alone.
The strangers come to task and try to help her locate her father--what's his name, what did he look like, what planet did they come from. And when the pieces come together, the strangers realize her pod she arrived in is a "super lightspeed" pod, and her father, her war-torn civilization, her planet, have been dead for hundreds of years now.
I think I moved away from it because it was JUST a little too on-brand for me in terms of angst genre, and the use of the super-lightspeed travel just didn't quite meet my threshold of intriguing. Instead I decided I wanted to leave the galaxy's greatest galactic asshole on an abandoned red planet to rot out the rest of his natural lifespan because people noticed his absence 8 days too late.
