Every day, a few more pages. Oddly, two of the characters insist on calling one another stupid.
More significantly, world-merging works even better than I’d hoped.
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It’s strange rewriting the scenes from the old novel that I’m going to incorporate into Eyes on the Mountain. I’m retelling events from a new character’s point of view, and things look mighty different.
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I’m reading the old unpublished novel to determine which seams to rip and which bits to repurpose in Eyes on the Mountain. It’s been decades since I looked at it, and I’m reacting differently now to the old characters; I’m liking ones I didn’t much, and I’m irritated by ones I used to find interesting. That’s shaping my thinking about which of them will appear in Eyes.
There are two fourteen-year-olds I quite enjoy, and one cranky eighty-year-old woman whose point of view I appreciate now in ways I didn’t before. But man, I really did a crap job on the villain; he’s over-the-top crazy unbelievable and is definitely not invited to the new novel.
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I’ve been thinking for a few days that events in the current novel dovetail with events in something I wrote years ago but never published. I see clearly how to rip the heart out of the other text to feed this one’s growing wings.
Well, gentler: I’ll herd the precious beasties aboard, aim for Beta, and hope we’re not hurtling toward doom.
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