Plot Point Fifteen - victory in sight?

Right, I've finally incorporated the last reusable element from my original version of Plot Point Fifteen (having decided I wasn't going to use it -- but having Raoul deal with the fire turned out to fit rather conveniently with my idea of writing Christine's conversation with Erik as sound effects only; the narrator has his back turned at the time!) The difference is that this now happens after Erik's dialogue rather than before, and in fact all the scheduled events concerning Erik happen rather earlier, thus pretty much solving the original problem.

(Sigh -- it's only taken me a month and a half. So much for being finished by January... although that in itself was a misremembering of what I'd actually written in the first place, back at the end of September, which was a mildly optimistic hope that I would be finished within the next twelve months, rather than by the end of the year, even if the latter did briefly look like a possibility.) ( Read more... )