Down with the Chapter!

The outcry was heard by the masterminds of the universe. Due to the disbelieving cries and outraged riots of the underlings, the gods have decided to give in...

And now, across all lands, one voice raises and yells, "WE HAVE SLAUGHTERED THE CHAPTER!!"

Now, all goofing aside, I've finally finished the chapter that took nearly one month to write. Coupled with life getting busy and being exhausted as I battle through winter lack of energy, it took way too long to finish this chapter. Now that it's finally under my belt I feel very accomplished. Enough so to blog about it!

SOPA got my diagram...Edited for spoilers (JIC I get popular)

So right now on the plot diagram(Which I need to describe in a future post) we are beyond the halfway point and officially in the nitty gritty middle where it either becomes SUPER hard to write or SUPER DUPER easy. Which way the ball rolls depends mainly on how much a writer is prepared for putting their characters through hell.

As a slightly over-prepared writer (I mean, come on, I have a plot diagram. It's a given I'm prepared), I have no fears about charging, nay, bounding into the middle. Mainly because I get to finally delve into my characters' heads and reveal to the reader, myself, and my other characters who they really are. It's hard to get this done when moving from setting to setting as I've been doing since the beginning of the book. Now my characters are stuck in one setting. Now I've got them where I want them.

Red arrow is where I am in the diagram

The only thing I'm slightly hesitant about is that this is the first time in around eight years that I have a secondary character whose point of view gets to take over at least two chapters. That means I'm straying from good old Roan and instead diving head first into Arobin's eyes. He's our new character who joined up in the end of Book 2. Like I said, he'll be getting a couple of his own chapters where he serves as a foil to Roan's situation. He's going to be emphasizing Roan's downfall in this book as he rises to glory. Since splitting polar opposite character personalities is difficult and I'll be jumping from one to the other as they rotate chapters I'm slightly dubious as to how well I'll achieve my goal of keeping each in his own sphere.

BUT STILL!!!

I am eager, I am enthralled, and I am enchanted by the places and adventures this book is dragging me to that I never thought we would go. And so now I leave to return to the novel where Arobin is blessed with his first chapter.

Indy wants to write a book about how he eats chicken poop