And off we go!

I finally figured out how to handle the appearance (or non-appearance as the case may be) of two "new" characters in my story. These guys both appear in the very beginning, then don't come back until much, much later in act III. I was worried their introduction (and disappearance) might seem odd and was considering writing in their backstory throughout the bulk of the story. Well, that's not what I did.

I simply changed the initial "accident" scene in the beginning where Adam and Jane are transported into the future (I'm not really giving anything away, here). And by "simply" I mean I changed the POV in the scene away from Adam and onto a perspective from inside the control room, which overlooks the Chamber where Adam and Jane are monitoring the experiment. So we get to see Adam and Jane disappear, then we see Brian (and some others) disappear a moment later. Poof! Now it's obvious to the audience that everyone is somehow linked to the accident, though we only get to see Adam and Jane as they awaken to a somewhat different set of circumstances than what they'd known. We're all left wondering what's happened to Brian and Fralick. Wondering, indeed.

So I've worked through the crisis at the end of act II. I know I said I was there before, but I realized I needed to more completely wrap things up in the aftermath of the big battle. I won't give anything away, though. Yes, there is a big battle and for a time it's quite uncertain if Adam and Jane will survive, but of course ... they do. Now I'm off and running in act III (hence the title of this post) and finally getting to write all those "candy bar" scenes I've been imagining and holding in my head for months and months. Yes folks, our heroes finally get to the Library. And not only that, we are quite nicely set up for a really big reveal. Shocking, some might say.

Well, I'm going back to writing, now. And this is the really big fun part, too! Can't avoid getting to the ending, now. The only difficulty I can see is making the "big bad guy" big enough and bad enough.

For those keeping score, I'm just past 104,000 words and 415 pages. Approximately 140 pages remain. So stay tuned.