The Boomerang
It’s gone and hit me on the head. Twice.
The first boomerang I threw over to America, specifically to my agent. That was the synopsis for The Pale Summer. He’s gotten back to me on it, and has given it the thumbs up with a few caveats. He likes the story, but feels I should make a notation of the particular structure for it right at the start, and then, once the convention has been established, simply get on with the story proper.
The second, far more nebulous and tricky to both throw and catch boomerang, was in the form of the niggling question I had in my mind about whether or not there was anything more to be done with some of the events towards the end of the novel. I had wondered briefly about it, and had an itch that something else could be done, or changed. I kind of shrugged and looked off into the horizon of my subconscious (since it seems to know how to write better than I do) and grabbed my slippery inquiry in hand, to toss away into the depths.
As expected, it kept going and going and disappeared from view.
Earlier it came winging its way back in stealth mode and hit me on the back of the head with a message scrawled on home made paper in charcoal. I will not divulge the contents of said message, suffice to say that it made me rub my head, go “Aw, man…” and realize there’s a chance my word count may go up a notch. Still, the change, while not effecting the ultimate ending, goes away towards altering some of the events in the end game, and changes a critical event by a few degrees.
It will be something of a minor pain.
But I like this change and think it’s worth it.
Bleah. More work on the synopsis and more work on the book…