Butterfly on a Wheel was originally conceived as a short story, so that was draft #1. It was completely from Jeanette's perspective. Then it expanded to a novella, then a full novel. While I was working on that I worked on two companion pieces, one the Butterfly timeline told (1/5)
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...trans, an idea I'd arrived at by 2009 but didn't know how to implement then. Jeanette's narrative was interspersed with "found text" and segments from Nicky's POV, both taken from the "sidequel" and rewritten heavily.
Oh, and I changed the ending. Instead of a story about
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...lies, betrayal, and death blasting a raw hole in everything, it became tempered with acceptance, resilience, and a spiteful will to keep going in spite of everything. The whole work became less venomous as a result, but I think it resulted in a better story overall!
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...in 2021, one of the first things I did was cut out 90% of the anime-flavored stuff that crept into the drafts over time. No more implied psychic abilities, explicit dealings with higher powers, or tropey character traits. Main character David was rewritten to be defiantly
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...from the perspective of the rest of the cast, and one a sequel that covered the decline and fall of everyone. All three manuscripts went through about five major revisions from 2000-2009. Then Life Happened and I put them away for a decade.
When I resurrected the manuscripts (2/5)
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From Nice Things, in which Catherine coaxes Mark into taking a trip to Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Every single young critic needs to hear this
A dying star: The eye of the cosmos watches and waits. (Andrew McCarthy photo)
Toward the ending. There are many islands and landmarks between the beginning and the end that are nebulous and uncertain, but the end is known and serves as the star on the horizon toward which I steer.
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“No rules. The only limit is our imagination.”
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American author, artist and journalist Djuna Barnes, #botd in 1892
