Now, admittedly, I haven't read the River of the Dancing Gods series, but even so, I am quite thoroughly confused here. I feel like I missed a chapter or three.
Well, actually, I can follow the story from where it picks up, at the beginning of the chapter, but it doesn't seem to match the end of Ch40 at all: i.e. There appears to be a gap in the continuity - unless I missed something, as I said.
I can hardly wait to see how this is all going to be explained in (hopefully) the next chapter.
Bill
Bill, from what I understand of Hikaru's writing, he almost NEVER does the obvious, so my guess is that it might take several chapters before he explains everything...
After all, he does like his cliffhangers...
And he's just beginning to set the stage yet.
But it looks promising
So roars a Norwegian Lion
*gives a sheepish grin*
Well, I must admit that I wanted to leave a huge hole between the end of Act II and the 1st chapter of Act III.
The story is no longer from Arden's point of view. It will shift from character to character as needed allowing me much more freedom to show things that are happening along the story line. Act I used this system, but it kept switching between 3rd person and 1st person. Act III will be written entirely in the 3rd person POV.
I intended to cause confusion, controversy and consternation in the reader by having Arden vanish without an explanation for what happened. The story line has now shifted from Arden being the driving force to accomplish his quest to Sheila now searching for Arden and a way home.
Although Sheila does claim to love Arden, we open the story by finding her in bed with another man. Once again her basic insecurities have driven her to find a guardian. She has also fallen back on the one trick she knows to win friends. Does this cause her some anxiety? Obviously. She became upset with Ross when he professed his love for her. She knows that what she did was wrong, but feels trapped. All this will come out more in the story.
Of course, my being an evil, cliff hangar monging writer, you'll have to wait for future chapters to discover all the new twists that will be coming into the plot.
Cheers
- Hikaru
Ah, yes. You're definitely an _evil_ cliffhanger monger...and I'm hooked.
Anyone notice the edge that Lakash has taken on?
I know we all know he's totally amoral and is too expedient for anyone's good save his own; but his appearance in chapter 4 reveals quite another facet to him. I wouldn't want to have much in the way of dealings with him- it's too easy that someone in his service is used as a pawn to get the "queen" in his game of chess that he plays about with the forces of good and evil.