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(this is future The Ancient Sea)
Sometimes you write a fun story that has neat updates of consistent lengths with a nice balance of different POVs and sometimes you have two characters whose chemistry won’t let them shut up and you wind up with a 7k chapter in which nothing happens.
(is it the characters with a oneshot single-POV story that went to 12.5k but at least there was pegging? yes)
“I shouldn’t think you have much need of art, Yennefer.”
She was still prowling around the room, and paused, cocking her head again. “Why not?” she asked.
“Art is something we make to help us feel we have some control over things we feel but don’t entirely always understand,” Jaskier said. “It’s a way to say the unsayable and make sense of concepts too large to hold in one mind. But it’s also just a way to feel control over something that can’t be controlled.”
She held her hand out, and he passed her the bottle. “What about my current state,” she said, and then paused to take a swig from the bottle and swallow it and then apparently stand there a moment doing nothing, “leads you to believe that I have no need of feeling in control of things?”
“You do control things,” he said. “That’s what you do. You have power and you make things happen for you and you see something that you want and you batter the world down until you get it.”
“Do I?” she asked, staring at him.
“Just because you haven’t yet succeeded at whatever you’re trying to get doesn’t mean you aren’t going to,” Jaskier said, and held his hand out for the bottle. “You have a lot more recourse than sitting around trying to write poems about how it made you feel in a vain attempt to come to terms with things you couldn’t possibly have done anything about but are wracked with guilt over anyway.”
(this is future The Ancient Sea)
Sometimes you write a fun story that has neat updates of consistent lengths with a nice balance of different POVs and sometimes you have two characters whose chemistry won’t let them shut up and you wind up with a 7k chapter in which nothing happens.
(is it the characters with a oneshot single-POV story that went to 12.5k but at least there was pegging? yes)
“I shouldn’t think you have much need of art, Yennefer.”
She was still prowling around the room, and paused, cocking her head again. “Why not?” she asked.
“Art is something we make to help us feel we have some control over things we feel but don’t entirely always understand,” Jaskier said. “It’s a way to say the unsayable and make sense of concepts too large to hold in one mind. But it’s also just a way to feel control over something that can’t be controlled.”
She held her hand out, and he passed her the bottle. “What about my current state,” she said, and then paused to take a swig from the bottle and swallow it and then apparently stand there a moment doing nothing, “leads you to believe that I have no need of feeling in control of things?”
“You do control things,” he said. “That’s what you do. You have power and you make things happen for you and you see something that you want and you batter the world down until you get it.”
“Do I?” she asked, staring at him.
“Just because you haven’t yet succeeded at whatever you’re trying to get doesn’t mean you aren’t going to,” Jaskier said, and held his hand out for the bottle. “You have a lot more recourse than sitting around trying to write poems about how it made you feel in a vain attempt to come to terms with things you couldn’t possibly have done anything about but are wracked with guilt over anyway.”
