As I  mentioned I might post earlier, here is the succinct playlist to Turn and Face the Strange--useful for catching some of the broader influences and easter eggs, especially, as I said, if you don't sport an encyclopedic knowledge of Bowie. Obviously the songs quoted at the beginnings of the chapters are good stuff too, but that's more mood ( Read more... )

Here it is. The last chapter. The big finish went a little farther than I originally intended it to, but I won't pretend it wasn't extremely cathartic. DIE, ANGSTY DYSTOPIA WITH A RIDICULOUSLY COMPLEX AND SYMBOLIC LAYOUT! DIE!

( Chapter Sixteen )

Lol this chapter is so disturbed. At this point I was at the eleventh hour, running on fumes and gallons of Dr Pepper. Every time I hit a scene that I KNEW, I dragged it out to the maximum word count. Thus, the longest death scene in the entire novel--two and a half pages from first stroke of violence to last wheeze. Wow. Good job, me. The whole ( Read more... )

If the order of events in the next couple chapters seem a bit scrambled, it's because I completely lost track of the timeline a couple chapters back and it finally started kicking in. Still very fond of the Earthling. I almost wish I could have used him more--his dialogue is so much fun to write.

This was the chapter where I suddenly loved Johnny as a character instead of as a sitar-playing plot device. Also, how screwed up is Joe? Very screwed up.

( Chapter Thirteen )

Poor Bevan. I loved him again just in time to say goodbye. :(

( Chapter Twelve )

Oh noez, Bevan is in trouble.

( Chapter Eleven )

As I was writing the last Bevan chapter I hated him. Writing this one, I loved him again. I'm pretty sure by next chapter I hated him again. :I

( Chapter Ten )

Gosh I hated writing this chapter. Kissyface is frustrating and boring and takes a more careful hand than what I could spare for NaNo. It's one of the shortest chapters I've written--there was more I wanted to say with this chapter, but I pretty much gave up and moved on.

( Chapter Nine )

Left off posting this at the end of November, but for those wondering, I did indeed win. Just barely. And I actually have someone sweet enough to give me a preliminary read! XD So I'm going ahead and posting this, chapter by chapter for greater reading ease. It needs, of course, vast rewriting, but if you feel like giving me some broad-strokes ( Read more... )