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Back to Where We Were

Masktrix has picked up and is galloping off with the set-up chapters that I published yesterday and the day before, so I'm back to the commission:

Interactive: "Of Two Minds About Almost Everything" 
Public: "Of Two Minds About Almost Everything" 

I'm not sure I've got much to say about it, except one observation:

There's a character-count limit at WdC: 10K characters, which works out to about 1750 words. That's a good length for chapters in genre fiction. But every once in a while it does make things awkward. I would have preferred to combine today's chapter and tomorrow's into one, but too much would happen to be comfortably squeezed into 1750 words. So I need two chapters to cover it. But there's not quite enough for two chapters, either.

So we wind up with a chapter like today's, which treads water for a little while before getting to the action.

But I'll confess to liking the material that pads it out at the beginning. Besides helping (IMO) with the pacing, it also adds a little emotion to things.