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Chapter 8 / HMLIS
Well, I feel kind of silly for that last post. Since that post I've kind of hit a stride and I can see the end in the (distant) horizon. I'm working on Chapter 13 (which isn't the last chapter) and I hope I can edit it into submission and sense-making when we get there. With all that in mind I think I won't post HMLIS until I finish up with Vice. Hopefully this means I can get most of HMLIS ready to go.
So, chapter 8 is going to start this wierd trend for the next few chapters where they are written in "real time". In that, there aren't a lot of time skips or jumps. I'm not sure why this happened, but it's something I noticed.
Third Person
I'm going back to answering some of the questions from the forum. Someone asked if I ever thought of making Vice third person. The answer is no. Vice/Veritas has always been Alan's story that he needed to tell. However, I did strongly consider writing HMLIS in 3rd person. I rewrote an entire chapter that way and realized....this just isn't working.
I wish me and third person could get along...maybe if Vice ever gets a sequel (which it may/may not) I think it could be third person. The more I write Vice the more I realized how limited I am in the world because everything has to be seen, experienced or explained to Alan.
Sundays
Okay, so I'm going to write briefly about this. Someone asked my favorite part of this serial and I have to say it was writing an extremely sympathetic character. Haley is kind of uncorruptable and I liked that about him. Also, despite the obvious purely physical aspect of some of their interactions, Haley and Maxwell love each other and they have this kind of forbidden love (prisoner, military officer). I don't do a lot of love stories, so it was nice. In fact, the fact that they love each other does come up in En Moritas, but we will get there...one way or the other.
Chapter 9 / Scavenger Hunt
So, let's move on to the second half of what was once a 10,000 word chapter. So I put a couple of things in here, let's see if you can spot them.
1. There are TWO literary refernces. Both are 20th century American novels.
2. Minnie gets to use a trope
East and West are at war and a draft has been put into effect. Alan's been offered a chance to go home and he's willing to do whatever Sara says to get there. Even going out to buy her two cases of wine.
CHAPTER 9
Playlist Here
-1-Stars by The XX ( this was in Blessed Hearts)
-2-Gorilla by Bruno Mars
-3-My Fault by Imagine Dragons
