The Value of Damnation

 This might be a good time to talk about that silly idea I had the year before of expanding the ending of the town through a five day nightmare as told between a single novel whose chapters are interspersed with short stories relating other related or non-related events taking place in that town through that difficult time. Yeah, that silly idea.

Well, roughly about midway through summer, I burned out about 9,000 more words following directly from where Chapter 1, "Thomas Lundmeir's Splitting Headache", had left off. While the total combined was together over 16,000, I realized that this was not sustainable in that said chapters, if at that length, would just be nightmarishly huge if unchecked. Being these 9,000 words begin a distinct change in the direction of the production of the day, it made sense to ensure that this was so. Thus the work done during the Summer of 2018 on "Circle of Midnight Black" earned its own distinction as Chapter 2, "The Value of Damnation".

This takes Thomas Lundmeir to a decision beyond his control, one which serves to determine the future of Baird's Holler as well as sets up the events for "All Dreams Must Conclude".

This post is really just a progress report, you know, a catching up now that the goals of the year were set with two months of time to waste before thoughts of even starting a new story should even begin to appear. Yup, 2017 had shown me well... hit your goal and then sit back and piss away your momentum. At least I have this slowly evolving thing in the background to prattle on about...