So, there I was looking at the last version of this book, and at my outline. We have our characters in one place in one chapter, and in a completely different place in the next doing something completely different without much explanation of how they got from one to the other. So I sort of improvised a new chapter to go between them and sort of bridge them together. Plus Raven was in need of some character development so I figured it why not do both at the same time, use a chapter of character development for Raven to bridge the gap between the two disconnected chapters. Anyway, since this chapter wasn't planned at all, it's probably not exceptionally well put together yet, but it gets the job done for now. If you feel the great urge to read it you can find it at the bottom of this page.
In this chapter Raven basically just sits alone and thinks about all of the horrible, awful things that have happened to him in his life. All the things that set him on his path, and made him who he is. He's a bit selfish and melodramatic about it, but I figure he's got a right to be. I also decided to give one of the characters that gets introduced a bit later in this book, a character that has appeared all all versions of this story before this one, a genderswap and changed the relationship that Raven had with him/her from friendship, to teenage love. It doesn't really change the story in any meaningful way, but it adds a bit more depth to the relationship between these two characters, and gives more opportunities for conflict and misunderstanding, which, as a writer, is always fun stuff.
And yes, I had a 3 day weekend off of work and I only got one four page chapter written. Oops. But man. It sure was nice laying around all weekend without doing anything productive. I suppose everyone should get to do it every once in a while.
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