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12
Sep
08

Journey’s End, Chapter 8: Trevor’s Mistake

a/n: As always, if this is your first foray into the Journey’s End story, please, click here to go to the table of contents and start from the beginning.

If you’re still here…

I think I should lay out my philosophy for all future posts of this story so that I don’t end up repeating the same thing over and over again.  These chapters are, to say the least, rough drafts.  I will likely never post whatever turns out to be the final draft as I hope to someday publish this work.  I’m saying this because increasingly I realize that I need the benefit of a dedicated editor and collaborator with whom I can bounce my work off of, and thus make this story as smooth and engaging as it can be.

I say this now because this chapter feels as though it’s the roughest of the offerings I have delivered so far, even if I’ve combed through it and made changes at least three times.  There are still parts that feel… off… somehow, and I don’t know that I can tweak those bits and pieces enough on my own.

In any case, despite certain eccentricities, I am still rather pleased with this chapter.  The thing I think that hurts it the most is that it is itself a bridge of a chapter, not exactly carrying any one momentous moment of its own, but instead polarizing itself around the end of one major moment and the beginning of another.

Thus this is a comparably longer chapter (though, at under eight thousand words, I suppose it isn’t), but it feels as such stretched a bit thin.  I suppose a natural ending could have been put a little earlier, or I could have split this chapter up between the previous chapter and the next, but one of the great things that I like about this chapter is that it has the rhythm that I’m shooting for.  It resolves to a degree a cliffhanger brought on at the end of the last chapter, and introduces the cliffhanger that will be fleshed out in the opening of the next.

Also, I like this chapter because it really starts to flesh out the character of Lindsey, and most specifically about how she feels towards her new companion.  This is by far one of my favorite aspects of this story–getting in her head, and trying to express the feelings and thoughts that she is having.

In any case, I hope you enjoy this chapter, and while I know I’m not maintaining this site on a day to day basis, I’m already deep into the next chapter (which will also, I expect, be rather long, depending on where I choose to end it).

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03
Sep
08

Aether

See the galaxy thanks to your new pet’s tongue!

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02
Sep
08

Lars’ Adventure

…it can burn whole buildings!

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28
Aug
08

8-bit theater

Get into it now before the journey ends.

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27
Aug
08

Casual Gameplay Escape

26
Aug
08

Ninja Glove

Do you have what it takes to wear the Ninja Glove?

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25
Aug
08

Boombot

Click click KABOOM!

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21
Aug
08

Journey’s End Chapter 7: The Golden Woods

a/n: Not much of an author’s note this time around, other than to say that the ending originally for this chapter sucked.  I think I fixed it this time, but there might be some grammatical errors now so I reserve the right to republish this chapter at a later date.

As always, if this is your first venture into Journey’s End, I encourage you to go check out the Table of Contents and start from the beginning.  And please please please let me know what you think!

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21
Aug
08

McDonald’s Video Game

20
Aug
08

Labyrinth 1 & 2

Beware the Minotaur, my son…

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