Chapter 11 got too long, not only in page count but in scene count. I split it. That pushed 12 to 13, etc…
Chapter 9 needs more space. Not word count, physical space. This means I need to extend the “loop” they’re making. At least Google Maps makes that easy. I sent them into Montana. They’re going to be too busy to notice. Until they hit Trail Creek. At least I assume that’s what it’s called. The road beside the unlabeled river bed is “Trail Creek Rd”.
Tom will be all “wait a minute, that wasn’t on the map.” They figure out where they are, head south to highway 212 and follow that back to South Dakota.
This puts them in the wrong place. Chapter 10 takes place in a specific area for a specific reason. Chapters 11 and 12 (formerly just 11) do too. As does Chapter 13.
Their new route takes them through the Chapter 13 area before the Chapter 10 area. Thankfully, there’s no leveling in Chapter 13. Chapter 13 is going to become Chapter 10. Chapters 10, 11, and 12 will all move up one.
This must happen for Chapter 9 to work. I realized this and said to myself, I said, “that enough for today.” I said it to The Laird, too.
Then I returned to the book I _was_ reading. Walled it. Once you see the ‘and’s, you can’t un-see them and it’s very annoying and distressing and causes me to want to scream and cry at the same time, and then I switched and restarted 1633. See how awful that is?
It starts with Rebecca meeting Cardinal Richelieu. “Oh, that one,” I thought to myself. She ends up in Holland and meets some Spanish prince who’s attacking Holland. They pretend to the world not to be talking while talking. The prince defects (or something of the sort). Meanwhile, the history teacher goes to London, is imprisoned in the Tower and vehemently objects to the plan to blow it up to escape: “It’s a historical treasure!” Meanwhile, Grantsville moves on. The point being: I know what happens. I don’t remember all the details (Gretchen causes havoc in Holland, because that’s what she does; but what havoc? No clue).
I don’t care. I don’t want to know. I want to know what happens to my werewolves, which means I need to reorder and renumber these chapters (and fix all the spreadsheet data) and find out.
Guess what I’m going to do next.
While I do that, enjoy a rejected cover image: No room at the top for any text, no dick bulge, the weird orange flag coming out of his back, and maybe more emphasis on leg-day at the gym; I actually don’t think this is too cartoonish or too anime).
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