The Dualist : Cage up; chapter complete.

posted 2008.12.17 at 12:47

Cage, which used to be Animal and Hammering before that, has been cleaned up, tweaked, or otherwise reformatted to spec. This completes the chapter - at 42 pages (actual), it's two pages shorter than the first edition version, thanks to the relocation of the "introduction" pages into Incursion.

It's taken just under a month from start to finish - and that's with stupidly enormous amounts of vacation time thrown at the project. The next few chapters will take longer.

Work on Convergence will start in a week or so - I have some commission work to take care of, and xeno still needs to typornograph Signal. It isn't actually done-Done until he gives it a thumbs up, so.

Speaking of Convergence.... I'll be adding four pages.* Four pages of badly needed context that fills in a pretty friggin' enormous plot hole. That happens near the end of the chapter, so I don't know how getting that done will effect deployment of reformatted pages.

I should also note that after this chapter passes typorno and I've had time to mull over any further changes or adjustments, I'll be proceeding with print formatting (grayscale and color) and, whenever I get around to generating a proper cover (front, back, insides)... hardcopy. Get this thing locked into something resembling CANON! before I succumb to changing it any further.

I've been threatening hardcopy for quite awhile now, and really, what I'm doing to The Dualist now is what Needs To Be Done in order to get it there.

Trust me on this, mmmkay?

* The Plan - which is much more coherent than the Cylon Plan, really - is to add four pages to Convergence, four to Clarity, and another eight-to-ten page wad ("expulsion") between Clarity and Motion. The additions to Convergence will patch a gaping plot hole; the extra pages for Clarity will sort of restore a scene that was cut, and Expulsion will just confuse the hell out of everything until I finish Dead City Radio.