La Vie Boheme

Progress? And also a block...

Slowly (very slowly) but surely, pieces are starting to come together for the Exile's Daughter rewrite. The world is starting to make more sense to me, a few characters are shifting around, developing different histories than I had anticipated, and I'm actually... dare I say it... making some firm decisions about how my world works.

Which resulted in a rather interesting logic block: If your prince is essentially immortal (or at least believes he is) why on earth would he care if he has an heir or who that heir is? I'm grappling with that one. Cause there's an answer, I'm just missing it.

Things I have resolved, though:
--I know what Alex's "secret power" is (I use that term very tongue in cheek)
--I know the differences between my high court fae, low court fae, mixed blood fae, and half-bloods.
--I know why David hates everybody who isn't high court, well really, I know why there's a huge prejudice between the groups.
--I know a lot of other minor character details that are probably even less interesting to most of y'all than the above. ;)
--I know I've got a shitload of rewriting ahead of me.

I won't even try to make a firm estimate at this point, but I wouldn't be surprised to see another 10,000-20,000 words tacked onto draft two. Not saying I'm sure that will happen, but it wouldn't surprise me.

Of course, the really good part of all this is that when I go to write books 2 and 3, I'll have all of this work already DONE. Suddenly I have a lot more sympathy for folks like Robert Jordan who write 50 million books all set in the same world.