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A short backstory to Silver, Worth, is up at Paper Demon. I'll deal with Elfwood later.

Silver's voice is always an interesting challenge to pin down. I don't think I've yet done it justice, quite, although no one would know that but me. He's the only character I have that pushing my vocabulary in that way, for most other characters I have to tone down the academia.

I ought to be working on the main story, of course, but it's still stuck in the what-happens-next problem. I was talking with my mom about it the other day, and she gave me some ideas to work with. I miss brainstorming like that. But it still comes down to figuring out what the various characters are going to do. And working around my narrator being locked in a room.

Looks like Silver is mired again :P. It's getting to the point where I'm really realizing that the vague ideas I had way back when simply aren't going to work. So now it looks like the Bad Guys have won, and I have to figure out a way for them to, uh, not win. This story ... may end up going in a direction completely different from what I had originally thought.

I also just got through some technobabble and have no idea if it makes sense.

Time to let it stew for a bit, work on Mother Arc.....

You don't realize just how much swearing is in a piece until you have to edit it out, oy.

I went ahead and submitted Part 11 of Silver to Elfwood, though I'm sure it won't be up for several weeks. I don't really like to submit unbeta'd chapters, but my mom has been busy and I doubt she'll get to it any time soon. But I read over it again and made some changes, though I have yet to upload them to my personal library since my computer lacks an FTP program.

It's amazing what a little distance can do; I no longer think this chapter is awful. Though by now I've probably lost any readers I once had.

Silver Part 11 is up on my personal site. Elfwood will follow when this chapter gets beta'd, which may be a while.

I still don't like this chapter, but it's long overdue.

Just over 1900 words into Part XI and finally feeling like I have something I can work with. The characters are doing things I hadn't anticipated, of course, but at least they're not staring at me anymore. They'd been staring at me for a while now, and it was starting to wig me out.

Of course this happens just as my writing time gets severely limited.

I also wrote out this little snippet when I was trying to get back into the grove for writing Silver. Unfortunately my POV character is asleep here, so it won't end up in the main work. But I like this little conversation, so I'm going to post it here for the hell of it.

( between the chapters )