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so I’m gonna split Meet Death Sitting into two simultaneous arcs because that’s the material I’ve got.
The Ancient Sea is one arc’s direction and I’ve got a few more chapters of that one– some written, some just roughly mentally sketched out– and then I think there’s one more story I’d break it off into for the climax-y kinda part of it.
and then I’ve done all these backstory sketches, starting with Along Came This Song and so on, wherein I wanted to demonstrate just exactly what Geralt was thinking when he kept insisting that he couldn’t fuck Jaskier or even admit he liked him, and I figured that’s all gotta be Geralt POV because that’s the only coherent way to do it– because it is just a series of stories of him Refusing To Think About It– but I do figure I can get a shitload of Jaskier backstory loaded in there that way, more interestingly because you’re not going to have any of his POV. (Andakilah12902 definitely gets credit for several of those vignettes, for sending me video game information like “oh yeah if he takes the potion that lets him see in the dark, if he has to go back outside before it wears off it super sucks” with accompanying screenshot, so, look forward to that scenario for example.)
But since I’ve been relying on Yennefer’s voyeurism for Jaskier’s POV in the Ancient Sea arc this means, hilariously enough, that the character I started out pinning this whole thing on is getting precisely 0 lines from his POV currently, so maybe I need to fold a little of him into Ancient Sea now, so there’s that. Like, I just started writing a Lambert POV, that’s not fair. Jaskier needs some lines.
But anyway, this weekend I’ll probably start posting some of the Geralt POV backstory, I just need to hammer out timelines.
Sometime this past week I broke 100k on the whole project, which on the one hand seems excessive, but on the other hand, fucking good, my output has been pathetic lately. The 30k novella in January was like pulling fucking teeth, by comparison, so this has been nice.
But I need to impose some discipline and framework now that it’s this big, so. That’s what I’m trying to do, here.
so I’m gonna split Meet Death Sitting into two simultaneous arcs because that’s the material I’ve got.
The Ancient Sea is one arc’s direction and I’ve got a few more chapters of that one– some written, some just roughly mentally sketched out– and then I think there’s one more story I’d break it off into for the climax-y kinda part of it.
and then I’ve done all these backstory sketches, starting with Along Came This Song and so on, wherein I wanted to demonstrate just exactly what Geralt was thinking when he kept insisting that he couldn’t fuck Jaskier or even admit he liked him, and I figured that’s all gotta be Geralt POV because that’s the only coherent way to do it– because it is just a series of stories of him Refusing To Think About It– but I do figure I can get a shitload of Jaskier backstory loaded in there that way, more interestingly because you’re not going to have any of his POV. (And
akilah12902 definitely gets credit for several of those vignettes, for sending me video game information like “oh yeah if he takes the potion that lets him see in the dark, if he has to go back outside before it wears off it super sucks” with accompanying screenshot, so, look forward to that scenario for example.)But since I’ve been relying on Yennefer’s voyeurism for Jaskier’s POV in the Ancient Sea arc this means, hilariously enough, that the character I started out pinning this whole thing on is getting precisely 0 lines from his POV currently, so maybe I need to fold a little of him into Ancient Sea now, so there’s that. Like, I just started writing a Lambert POV, that’s not fair. Jaskier needs some lines.
But anyway, this weekend I’ll probably start posting some of the Geralt POV backstory, I just need to hammer out timelines.
Sometime this past week I broke 100k on the whole project, which on the one hand seems excessive, but on the other hand, fucking good, my output has been pathetic lately. The 30k novella in January was like pulling fucking teeth, by comparison, so this has been nice.
But I need to impose some discipline and framework now that it’s this big, so. That’s what I’m trying to do, here.
