Another in a Series of Oddly Productive Days in March

* Chapter 9-B of FFO is off to my beta. It's fairly short, though, so this isn't much of an accomplishment. It's only 4,000 words long and I usually hit about 8,000+ for FFO sub-chapters. Chapter 9 has two parts left to it, -C and -D. I think 'C' will mostly be a three-way training montage, while 'D' will be a romantic action-comedy that will set the stage for the finale in Chapter 10.

* Been filling out my outline for FFO Books 2 and 3. I've got bits of the Book 2 finale sorted out, including deciding that one major character will now die. It's gonna be a whopper of a death scene too. I've also been considering an extensive revision of half the "Sozin's Comet" finale (which I'm either calling "The Motion Picture" or "Weapons of Choice" depending on what day of the week it is) because of pacing/theme concerns.

* I've started rewriting "Praise Be to Nero's Neptune" and have a solid four thousand words done on it so far, plus the fragments from the defunct NaNoWriMo version. I've decided to junk the chapter divisions and just make the story a continuous narrative. I have no ending in mind for the "Praise Be" yet, which I find disconcerting. Beginnings and endings are always the first things I come up with -- Siege of the South started out with its ending and then I went back to the beginning and wrote up to there, Taking Sights I've changed a few times but knew its general shape, and Facing Fearful Odds I've known how all three books and the finale will begin/end since I started the whole project.

* I've started a new short story project. I just had a plot bunny pop into my head at dinner one night and then spent the next five hours straight writing out the first chapter. It's a weird one. The story will probably only be 5 or 6 parts. It stars Aang and is tentatively called Between Tick and Tock. After spending so much time on FFO, it feels strange to write Aang.