Chapter Ten: Shan and Priscilla Ride Again

[rolanni]

We have a lot of phone calls and mundane business to take care of tomorrow, so, our busyness is your early chapter!

Please note that, with the posting of this chapter, there are only five more ahead of us.  Do recall that we've been viewing an incomplete work, and it will not end tidily.

Here's your link to Chapter Ten.

Enjoy!

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Hard to tell what we might have done, had we taken this out to the end, and I daren't try to reconstruct our thinking at this distance.

What we usually do is -- we don't throw anything out, even if the scene/chapter/line/whatever is removed from the WIP. Sometimes, the scene is just in the wrong place; sometimes, it's in the wrong book; sometimes it's something we had to write in order to work something else out, and won't itself appear anywhere.

The first 25,000 words of Alliance of Equals are "outtake chapters" from Dragon in Exile -- because I was trying to write two books at once, and those chapters simply didn't belong in Dragon.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Thanks! So an outtake is like a branch (sorry, I'm thinking code control systems). That explains it.