210 is being rescheduled.

Bottom line up front: 

210 not coming today. Expect an update tomorrow night. The update will either be the finished 210 or a note letting you know that this was our last skipped posting day of January, with the chapter pushed back to Sunday.

As always, anyone who is going to miss a chapter because of a delay can shoot me a message, and I'll make sure you get it! 

Writing notes:

Since the last time I saw you wonderful people, I had a couple of days full of unexpected things that kept me from writing as much as I usually do and then one day that was great for writing, but the writing I did didn't turn out how I wanted. I thought the scenes I had planned would hit certain emotional points naturally. As I was struggling around in the middle of the chapter, I realized that it just wasn't happening.

Alden's dream healing process is, I think, cool; I want to convey the coolness without any confusion or klunkiness. So I've now re-outlined and dived into a better version.

I'm pretty excited about, and confident in, the scene I'm writing right this second, which I hope means I'll get a lot of work done tonight and wake up tomorrow ready to zoom through the rest of it. If it goes like that, I'll give you the whole thing tomorrow night. If I run into another roadblock, I'll go ahead and push it back to Sunday.

Why not just use the last skip of January now?

It's because I do prefer to warn you guys that the skipped posting days are coming in advance, not on the day they happen. I'm sure that's better for you, and it feels better for me not to be burdened by the crushing weight of my own guilt for promising my characters their freedom and then keeping them imprisoned in my notebooks instead.

So if I can get this one right with an additional twenty-four hours, I don't want to make you wait any longer.

That being said, I'd rather just be guilty for mistiming the skip than release a chapter that doesn't feel right, so if it's not looking as beautiful as I think it should tomorrow, we'll do it the other way.

Will there be a preview tomorrow if the full chapter doesn't post?

Yes. But this one is likely to feel cliffhangery no matter where I break it. I think. I've noticed I tend to have slightly different cliffhanger interpretations than readers.


Thank you for being here! See you tomorrow with, I hope, the whole thing.

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