Chapter eight will soon be underway, probably not today as I business to attend to this morning and it interfered with writing time. But I had a chance to get some ideas jotted down at work that modified a couple plot twists, mainly dealing with the hand switching of power for the bad guys, hints that the agency may not survive the events of the book, or even before, and there are several elements that are a bit more in the way of filler material than actually relevant to the story that I am considering omitting for now, but for now - it will remain. With the way this draft is progressing, it is highly possible that material may find a way to integrate itself into the story. Time with tell.
Expanding on the idea of the plot twist with the bad guys power shift, it involves the main bad guy carrying out his plan and it shows the ends to which he is willing to go to achieve his end by playing multiple sides in order to gain the confidence of everything necessary for his plan. After executing this, a new character was born with relevance to the general leading the Ultranationalist movement the connection to the story will not come until later in the story, near the end, but it is of grave importance and the main character sees a part of himself in them when it comes to life experiences.
After the events of chapter six, the agency is in peril due to the loss of manpower and with issues that arose, the president inside the book is beginning to wonder if it was a good idea to establish it given what it wound up being used for. Donovan Johnson is quick to tell him that it may seem that way, but they are still dedicated to their mission. Depending on how the rest of the book goes, it may be the agency is disassembled and perhaps reformed in some way. An idea that will gain traction later perhaps, but one that has some merit and some definite intrigue for a sequel, if any. Another idea that is on paper, along with many others, so ideas may be gathering for a sequel, who knows. One step at a time though.
The possible omission of what I see as filler material at the moment, may gain some relevance as the story progresses. This third draft, as stated at the start of this entry, has turned out much more detail orientated and a focus on getting the feel to the readers of the situation at hand. There are a couple in particular that serve no purpose to the serve, but have some emotion as they involve the main character and the love interest. One scene in particular occurs a night before the next set of missions take off, involving the loss of clothes and horizontal shuffling. But it serves no purpose in the storyline except a night of intimacy for the pair of them as it yields nothing special in the story, nor was anything brought on by it beside a heat of the moment thing. While it is an important step in their relationship, it technically serves no purpose, which is why its in limbo. The part that leads up to it originally in the second draft was omitted as a last edit on the second one, because it - like the scene that follows, is filler material, something I'm trying to eliminate. Chekhov's gun as they call it.
Now that most of the errands and personal stuff is taken care, I can get back to writing as early as tomorrow morning after work, which I have full intention on. Who knows, I do my best thinking at work apparently, so new ideas or reformation projects for the current ones may creep up between now and then.
Until then.
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