I had to add an entire new section to account for a plot bomb I’d placed and forgot to detonate. Otherwise, mostly continuity glitches and the usual minor stuff. That’s done, and now only a few more chapters to go in the revision. I was afraid the end Chapter would need a complete rewrite, but after a quick review I think I did a better job than I’d realized.
Anyway, progress. In case anyone’s curious, that’s a portrait of Dessera. She’s important.
Quick update. I’m almost a third of the way through the rewrite on The Seventh Law of Power, managing about a chapter a day. It had to sit for a while so I could come back to it with a clear head. Stumbled upon a subplot I’d actually forgotten, but easily fixed. Which is why it’s called a rewrite.
Actually, Marta came first in a short story called “Treedle.” But the Long Look was the first in the Laws of Power series. I just didn’t know it was at the time. But, unless I have some sort of divine revelation, I’ve just wrapped up both their stories. The Final Chapter and Epilogue of The Seventh Law of Power are done. In rough first draft. I still have to do the rewrite. But I usually rewrite as I go, so I don’t expect it to take that long.
I’ll post when I have a publication date. I have no excuse for taking so long to get the darn thing done.
That was the first one. I can’t say yet what the last one is going to look like. Maybe before long. Anyway, I’m here to say I was wrong. What I thought was the final chapter is looking like the next to last. I finished Chapter 28 when I realized there was too much left to get it all done without a chapter bloated to a silly degree. Went on to Chapter 29. I’m close, but still not there.
If that’s frustrating for some of you, imagine how I feel. Regardless, what everything has been building to in the Laws of Power series comes to crisis in Chapter 29. After that it’s all over except the cleaning and tying up any loose ends. Of which there should not be many, mostly one big one named Tymon the Black, but I have plans for him.
I’m going to miss these characters, but the irony is I can’t wait to start.
I’m about to start what I believe is the final chapter of The Seventh Law of Power. There are three threads to tie up and I believe I can do them all there, with a short epilogue. Mostly because I like epilogues, and it’s my book so I can do one if I want. If I’m wrong about the threads, that’s only one extra chapter at most. Everything that came before has led to this point in the story. I know, took me long enough, but I’m getting there.
Almost as if I knew what I was doing. Almost, that is.
On a related subject, trying something a little different on YooToob. I took one of my favorite stories, “The Trickster’s Wife,” created illustrations for it, did the narration and put it up on my channel. If anyone wants to hear me reading one of my own, it’s there. That’s not my face at the end, though. That’s a character I call “The Presenter.” My alter ego.
Richard Parks 