Rainmaker: Blog

I tried to inform him that my long-gestating Master PC story, The Pact, was finally finished, but I have gotten no response from him and see that it has been a year or to that his Master PC Universe page has been updated.

Is JR still with us? Does anyone actually know?

Thanks

The spark of a few ideas hit me one day about the "ending" of The Pact. I got a fair amount of feedback -- not the amount I wanted -- so I thought I would ask directly.

Should the story stand on its own or should I move forward with some (not all) of the characters?

A compelling need to tie up plot threads and throw a big ol' curve ball at the loyal readers of this story have pushed The Pact past 60 chapters. It makes it a better, fuller story as far as I'm concerned. And since it's three years in the finishing, I think I'm entitled to be happy with the end product.
Hope you are too.

Today, or soon thereafter, I will be posting chapter 50 and beyond, and I take a moment to ask how the heck did this story get that big, that out of control. And after some honest reflection I came to realize that I've let the story tell itself, and it's as long as it's needed to be. I appreciate those of you who waited some two years for this thing to be finished, and I'll admit now that it was always going to be finished, but I am cursed with a one-track mind and cannot write than one story at a time. I finished a "normal" novel on commission for an individual; it was great work, I thought, but the commissioner will not let me post it. That's fair; he paid for that right.
I kept the Pact characters in my mind (I have photos that I have used for visual templates of most of them), so once I familiarized myself with all the little story lines that, honestly, I'd forgotten, I moved forward, finished the story, then went BACK and plugged the dangling plot threads. As soon as I finished this blog, I am dropping in the final one. I can only hope that it winds up being a seamless tapestry and The Pact winds up as a favorite of you loyal folks.

Even though I thought I had finally tied off the ending to The Pact, I came to realize that there was a plot thread or two that had been lost in the two years that the story sat idle. This is why I re-read it and re-submitted all of the earlier chapter, so that aspects of the story don't disappear in the middle of the story. Also, a thankyou to those who have let me know about continuity glinces that I immediately fixed. All such communications are welcome.