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One Ends; Another to Begin

So today's chapters -- "Invalid Item"  (public) / "A Science Nerd Reports"  (interactive) -- bring the first 10-chapter contest commission to a stopping point. I liked writing it. I wouldn't mind continuing it at some point. I hope the people who sacrificed some of the GPs for it were reasonably satisfied with it.

But I'm committed to writing a second storyline, one that will start tomorrow. I'm halfway through that one -- five of the ten chapters written -- and I would be further along except ...

Well, the day before yesterday I woke up with the idea for a really bizarre plot twist for it. Yes, the old cliche about coming up with stories in your sleep does happen, and it happened this time. It was such a huge plot twist, though, that I'm not going to use it. Instead, I'm going to save it and introduce the basics of it in another part of the interactive -- probably in the storyline for the last third of the month. So instead of writing new stuff, I had to spend yesterday revising two chapters in order to put the next branch onto a new footing.

But I know where things are going, and I don't anticipate missing any publication dates.