Being she of the busy brain, I couldn’t just do nothing while I waited for all these literary agents to start a bidding war over me.
Ha!
So last night, while looking for something to do, I opened up the first 7k words I’ve written of book two (yes, Cloudia is a series).
When writing book one, I found I like to throw little subtle Easter eggs into my plot. Maybe people will get them, maybe not. It doesn’t really matter to me; the story still makes sense without them
As I was reading what I wrote, I realized that a theme I had going had a few holes.
Ok, brief side note:
Am I being cryptic?
Yes.
Is it because somewhere in the back of my sometimes grandiose brain I think this will be wildly successful and I shouldn’t give away the plot?
Also yes.
Anyhoo.
So, in trying to fix this theme/Easter egg hole, I fell down a gaping, cavernous worldbuilding rabbit hole.
What if the one thing that was off-theme stayed off-theme and became on-theme at the end?
Stay with me.
But what is the reason the off-theme thing is off-theme?
And then I fell.
Two HOURS and many Wikipedia pages later, I had a reason why the off-theme thing was off-theme and a potential ending for the entire series.
Before last night, I wasn’t quite sure how I would wrap everything up, but one tiny error in my Easter eggs led me to the ENTIRE ending, plus a bunch of fun characters and details along the way.
That was fun. How does anyone ever do anything else?
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