The Sitch with Vanishing

[valyssia]

I should probably explain what I’m doing. I know that some of you will have questions.

As you can see, I’ve begun to work on Vanishing again. It’s been a full year since I touched the story. That’s tough for me to believe, but it’s true. I was about a quarter of the way through when I switched focus last year. I have no idea why I dropped it, but I did and it’s still on my to-do list, so…

Anyway, when I picked it up I perceived the same flaw I saw when I last approached it. The first chapter was just lame. I read it and yawned. I tried to play with it some to work that out, but honestly, it was still boring, so I removed it. The material really isn’t necessary to make the story make sense. It was intended to be a primer that showed where the human Buffy came from. We don’t need that. This story is about an AU flopped on top of another AU. There’s gonna be exposition a plenty throughout the entire narrative, else it won’t make sense. Dishing that out in spoonfuls really is the way to go. The cupful at the beginning just sucked.

I pulled the remaining chapters instead of renaming them. It just felt like the thing to do. I’m making another edit pass and adding to what’s already there. I laced about a thousand more words into the second chapter—which is now the first chapter—before I posted it.

Because of the added material I’m also using this as my prompt piece for Taming the Muse. I trust that that’s okay. If any of the TtM mods would like to see proof of the additional word count, they need only ask. I save everything.

My plan is to work the story start to finish as a primary focus while I’m still fiddling with Bloodletting as a sideline.