DZ-Jay's Random Blog - Christmas Carol: A Short Story - Part VIII

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I was going to continue writing chapter 7 this morning and instead found myself playing with the font-sizes and paragraph spacing of the chapter titles. Darn! I am my worst enemy.

Anyway, that took just about an hour (I am very dedicated to my fonts), so now I'm back to work. Only that instead of writing the story, I ended up over here, writing a blog post. Darn again!

Oh well, let's embrace this moment. I'll convince myself that this is not a means to avoid working on the book, but actually a form of retrospection to come up with narrative ideas and character motivations. Yeah, that's it. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.

So ... considering that Carol is about to enter what will henceforth be known as the Candy Cove, I was thinking, "what is Carol's favourite candy?" In the game, the candies are just dots, and even though we describe Carol as an elf with a sweet-tooth that will eat as much candy as she can find, we never specify the type of candy other than to say that the dots were "bon-bons." Back then, those red dots looked to me like cherry-covered chocolate bon-bons, so that's what they were. Yet ... is that really Carol's favourite?

Then it hit me, there's no question about it: Carol's favourite candy is of course, a peppermint candy cane! DOH!

I guess I need to make sure the Candy Cove includes plenty of those -- I need to make sure that the "me" who is actually in control of the story (the one that the "conscious me" appears to have no command over) writes them down. I've given that "me" plenty of hints, so we should be good. I even titled the chapter "Sweet Candy Canes!"

Then again, the "story-writing me" may decide to just fill the place up with licorice sticks or lemon-drops, and we'll probably discover that Carol loves those too. Oh well. At least she'll get some treats.

That's it for now, back to work other "me"!!!

See ya'!
-dZ.

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