Pondering...

Just thinking a bit (always a dangerous thing), but I've mentioned a couple of times over on the list how getting stories chapter by chapter (or part by part) can have disadvantages - people forget something from earlier, or they "see" things coming because they can't read the next part immediately, etc etc. But I'm also wondering if the waiting adds to the "positive perspective" - in that, because the reader is constantly waiting for that next part, the anticipation makes the story seem better than it is, that maybe the parts are better than the whole, to paraphrase.  ??

Time out

Going to be a couple days before the next chapter, for sure. Have a job interview this afternoon (my brother said, "Behave yourself - no *attitude*!" - what a killjoy. ;p  And then I also have to go through Ruckus analytically - have the basics but have to do a timeline and pick out the little details I want to be sure to include. Such a tortuous task  :D  Wish I didn't have to do that interview - but what the heck; be nice to have a little extra money coming in. And if it works out, next winter will be paid for so I really can go south. YIPPEE!!

Ruckus stuff

Just been going through Ruckus - watch a bit, stop, take notes, watch some more, take more notes - little bits of conversation, looks, time frame, etc. Then I got to the scene at the fair where Kyle gets "kidnapped" and I had to stop for a while. That whole section always gets to me, like major angst on *my* part; but then, I get that way with books or movies where people are put in situations where they no longer have any choice in what's happening to them - yeah, I know, that's basically *ALL* of Covenant  :p  Maybe that's why the chapters are so hard to write. 

Talked to my son a little while ago - he lives out in Marina del Rey and works in Beverly Hills, and takes the bus to work and back - and tonight he got into it with the bus driver for not picking him up at the first stop and he had to run to the next one. Anyway, long and short of it - the bus driver was this 200-pound, long pony-tailed guy with a dragon tatoo covering one arm - and my son maybe weighs 160 pounds soaking wet, so he knew enough when to finally shut up. He said, "What can I say - I'm your son."  Hmmm...

So...rambling a bit while I decide whether to continue with Ruckus or leave off for the night. I'm almost to the end, so maybe I'll turn back my angst meter and finish it up so I can start planning things out and start writing again. I'm anxious to write this part now, because I've seen so many places where what I've already written works right in with the Ruckus nuances. My biggest obstacle is how to sneak the others guys in there. So far I only have a couple of scenes for them, and I know I have to have more than that.  Although maybe not, because it is Face, after all, and the whole of Ruckus takes place over five days. The real Team part comes after Ruckus anyway. Oh, more to think about...