Spiral 7.1

After the longest hiatus yet in-between chapters (though, I believe the longest chapter yet) Colby has finally relinquished the Spiral Project and handed me chapter 7.1. At about 10k words, I have to admit this might be his best chapter yet, in terms of the actual writing (not that it was bad before, but this would be the best).

I did tell him via text that I felt at times Spiral feels like a bit of a power struggle, with him and me in a tug-o-war with our two stories and trying to gain dominance and assert our literary penises, but he assured me he's doing no such thing, so I better promptly zip up. The whole idea of Spiral was that we'd take the book as the total canon, with all other ideas and plans we may've conjured to be peripheral and subject to spanners. I did say some point in the blog that I was starting to get really attached to my story (even going as far as to mention thinking of abandoning to project altogether to just write a kickass book using my story), so I only have myself to blame now that things are advancing away from it. But it's cool, I think I've come up with a suitable next chapter.

Something that will, as I've long promised, provide an overall feel for the endgame of the story. I guess you could say it'd be like the first scene in the season five finale of Lost, with Jacob and MIB ... that kind of a feel for a chapter, showing what the stakes are. Naturally what I originally had planned has had to change a bit, and I may've escalated the scope, but I do believe it is for the best and keeps in line with the ethos of the project.

AND I've thought up a really neat link for a stories ... something I've thought about for a bit now and was hoping Colby wouldn't write something that would make it impossible. Indeed, when I first started reading the chapter all hope for my plan seem scarce, but towards the end I was relieved to find it open enough to crowbar the link in.

As for my timeframe, I've given myself a week. By next Thursday I will have my chapter in for Colby. I have no intentions on making it a long one ... not like the epic 10k one he just sent, although it may end up long now I start planning it out and breaking it down into scenes. A lot has to happen to get to my ending, so it may well extend to a lengthy one. But I feel the story will need it's framing to gift it a sense of totality.

Oh, and I have a killer idea I'm dying to execute. ;)