Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link “Easy lad,” Walter soothed as he guided Jeremy to a couch. He winced as he touched the youth’s head. “Lad, you’re ice cold! What happened?” Jeremy shivered and shook his…
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Unpacking Beginnings
We’ve arrived back in dreamland. This passage was originally slated to be the opening section of chapter eight, but the time jump in “The end of a road” demanded to play first chair. This isn’t a long passage, the dreams typically haven’t been, but there’s still some interesting tidbits found inside. Let’s unpack. Different evertorches…
Fiction Tuesday – Beginnings
Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link That night, Jeremy dreamed again of the abandoned city. As before, he was perched on a high cliff overlooking the former metropolis. The Sun was setting in the West, and…
Unpacking The end of a road
This was a very different passage. Let’s unpack. Time jump I’ve been writing this story for over a year, but in story time that only amounted to several days. So I took the opportunity to speed up time a bit. It allowed me to shift things up and prod the story along. It was an…
Fiction Tuesday (on Wednesday) – The end of a road
Today’s blog is the continuation of, Welcome to the Valleys. If you would like to catch up with the tale, the first section can be found at this link Later, Jeremy didn’t recall much of the next several months spent in the Ravine. Seven days after Walter’s initial petition to have The Coastlands brought under the Senate’s jurisdiction, the…
Unpacking Identity check
Some interesting items in yesterday’s segment. We’re getting to the end of the Senate sequence, but Merkot has some maneuvers he wants to impose on the debate. That’s next week. For now, let’s unpack. Jeremy zones out Once again, the characters reveal portions of my own personality. I hate meetings. The very thought of sitting…
