You can still see it with a small telescope

Chapter 4 of "Congratulations on Your Apotheosis" is up. Much more dialog in this one, but geez louise, do these people have to use so many exclamation points? Especially Bill. I don't think I realized it before, because the last two things I wrote him in, he was depressed, but he's much happier now, and I sort of hate it. My writer's brain rebels at more than the tiniest sprinkling of exclamation points, but what do you do when that's just how they talk? At least he didn't pull out any ALL CAPS this chapter. But he does use them. You know he does. You can hear them.

I also note that this thing is developing some character stuff that I didn't actually consciously intend to put in, or at least not to make this prominent. This isn't a bad thing, but it is one more thing I feel like I have to do something with at the end in a way that feels at least a little satisfying. And right now my brain is running around and around in circles trying to figure out exactly what I'm doing with the chapters I still have to write. Seriously, this WIP thing feels so much like aerial acrobatics without a net.

The next round of genprompt_bingo is now up! I'm still only about two and a half squares into the previous one, but based on past experience, it's nice to have a new one available for when I finish, lest I find myself staring into space going,"But... but what do I write now?"

Anyway, here's the card. The baked good-centric top row is amusing me, but I am definitely not using it. Not sure what I will go for, though. There's certainly a lot here that works well for Current Fannish Obsession. (I mean, "sweaters" and "child endangerment" right next to each other? Are we just recreating Gravity Falls canon here, or what?)

( The new card! )