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I swear, my characterization of The Voice is rapidly devolving into *teleports behind you* Nothing personnel, kid levels of silliness. The guy dresses like he's on his way to a Muppet-themed rave, and here I am trying to turn him into a tragic manipulator. Somebody stop me.

Why does he have to talk so much I'm so bad at dialogue aaah

"Oh, yeah, I could totally finish this chapter by the end of the month. How long's it going to be? 10,000 words?"

As much as I struggle with dialogue, I would have thought writing from the point of view of a mute character would be less frustrating than this. I think I can only write so many variations of "X stared." or "X said nothing." before I start to climb the walls.

The fourth chapter of There the Rain Raised Mountains has just broken 25,000 words. It is now almost twice as long as every previous chapter combined. Have a preview before I dive head-first into revisions:

The Voice: WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS WORDS
Rider:
The Voice: I feel like I've failed as a father and can no longer ignore the avalanche of emotional instability currently brewing in my brain.
Rider:
Rider: *eyebrow*
Dramatic thunder! Convenient rainstorms! Hamfisted flower symbolism and paragraphs of navel gazing as Petty once again forgets we're in a sci-fi setting!

I am such a hack.

So the latest chapter of "There the Rain Raised Mountains" is turning out to be just as long (or longer) than all the previous chapters combined. And Scrivener just crashed and deleted three days of progress.

What are you trying to tell me, karma?

probably a bad idea

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