DUDE
That was a good drafting session. I originally wrote Chasm what feels like a long while back but couldn’t have been any more than 2 months.
It’s funny how much time I’ve invested into What’s the Catch? only to be like… yeah, nah…
Like I could start there but it doesn’t feel quite right. I like starting so I have a rough baseline for Hamish.
It just makes sense. I don’t want to start too depressing, I’d rather build up to it.
The backstory is interesting but honestly not as interesting as the middle bits.
Here’s my idea of Chronology
Spin Me a Yarn (background)
Those Aren’t My Car Keys
Chasm
What’s the Catch
Spin Me a Yarn (present)
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It’d be pretty hard to move on writing wise from What’s the Catch without going back to Spin Me a yarn. My best bet is that it will end up background mostly finished before I get to the present version of Spin Me a Yarn since the past inspires too much of the future.
No way to tell exactly how I’ll handle all this. I’m mostly focused on writing Those Aren’t My Car Keys.
Chasm 1.0 definitely will be trashed canon-wise. I don’t plan on deleting it. It feels like a testament to how far I’ve come.
Plus I find it hilarious how paranoid I was about the Tubular chapter which will inevitably be scrapped. I just have a feeling that there might be force food involved but I doubt that it would be that unintended s3xual connotations . My bet is that Crane would do something that makes Hamish choke before it’s like that. It’d be a far quicker chapter. Or it would be frequent forced meals. Or it would simply not be Crane doing the forcing.
He would more likely report to Skull that Hamish is avoiding it than actually doing it. Maybe he’s use you as a teddy bear, happy about your distended belly because that meant you wouldn’t die.
Perhaps when you overflow with magic Skull would admit: yeah, my bad.
But it’s already pretty fucked by that point.
The extra nutrients prob would last Hamish during a starving bit so they could clear their head before talking again.