I’ve been toying with ideas for Beth’s continuation and the long term arc. And I have an idea… (stop the groaning at the back!)
I’m still not sure it’s a good idea, so I am going to put it out there to gauge feedback. Basically, I’m considering merging Beth and Marr. How it’s possibly going to work is as follows:
Picture a world, a world not too dissimilar from Earth. You have America (top and bottom), Europe and the East (China, India, all those sorts of places). Basically continents A, B and C. Beth is going to be either continent A or C (it doesn’t matter which) and Marr will be the opposing continent of either C or A. It doesn’t matter which way round as long as there is a landmass in-between the two stories.
As is already written, Marr is preparing a fortification at the edge of his continent, where it borders on the edge of the middle continent. Beth is in the opposing continent, and her mother was once part of war in a ‘distant continent’ (the middle continent) about which she knew nothing about, or indeed, her mother’s involvement in afore mentioned war. The timelines for both stories will be running concurrent, neither will be ahead or behind the other (by more than a year or so) and they possibly might meet for … reasons …
If you would all like to keep the stories separate (because Marr has more objectionable content for some) Then let me know, as I am only considering the possibility at the moment and it’s not in stone that’s the way it’s going to go.
Oh, and The Anya is getting another small update, which should be submitted to the posting queue over the next few days. I had been mulling over the ending as it was left in a bit of a cliff-hanger, and I don’t like cliff-hangers myself. The cliff hanger is still there, I just … ummm … smoothed it out a bit.
Merry Christmas to you all (those that celebrate it) and a happy new year (for those into that sort of thing).