Last night, I finished reading “Worm“. Some stuff in the epilogues really struck me as Not Working. I pondered it in the back of my head while I finished up some stuff for the Rainfurrest website, then went to bed.
And those ponderings moved over to consider my plans for “Drowning City”. I asked myself if the ending would be unsatisfying in the same way Worm's was. Yes, it would be, I realized. So I thought about what I felt was missing, and wrote out some descriptions of stuff to fill this narrative hole between the climax and epilogue – something about how Alecto goes from falling out of a disintegrating fairy castle, into the bleak reality of post-Katrina New Orleans.
Looking at it in the light of day, it still feels good. So yay. One more hole in the plot plugged.
Man. I've been carrying this story around for so long now. It's going to feel really, really weird when I'm at the point of having finally told it in a few years. I'll probably never turn a story over again for as long as I have this one.
But right now I should focus on more immediate projects again – that aforementioned web site, getting Rita 2 out the door, and those short pieces I've promised.