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The Mess at the Crossroads

So, at the start of the week, I said this would be a six-chapter run. Change of plans: It's going to be a five-chapter run, because I got stuck for a sequel to today's chapter.

Fortunately, the guy who commissioned this branch also commissioned those "Student Body" chapters from me, so we made a deal whereby I'd write an extra SB chapter to make up for cutting one from this branch. So you'll get an SB chapter tomorrow.

And after that?

Oh, it's a mess. That's what I've got to figure out today.

I have two more commissions to fulfill. The next one is supposed to be a sequel to "Invalid Chapter" . But that's an old branch that is now out of continuity with BoM as it has since evolved, and the discrepancies bother me. I'm extremely tempted to do a thorough rewrite before continuing with the commission. It's already the case that I'd have to make very large changes to "The Princess and the Pauper"; and, as an added excuse, I'd have to post a bunch of those chapters to the public Archives edition before pushing on. So I would have a good excuse for doing clean up that I want to do anyway. But it's extra work and would delay getting to the new stuff.

I could let plans there sit for awhile, and skip ahead to the second commission. But that's going to be a long one—fourteen chapters, I'm thinking. But I'm not sure I'll have a better idea in two weeks about how to handle the first commission than I'll have now.