The Thought Process Behind the Last Chapter

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WARNING: SERIOUS CRACKHEAD ENERGY

This is purely rambling for anyone who is interested in the inner workings of my brain while I'm attempting to write.

5/16/2020

Totally lost where I was going with this again. People always want to talk to me when I'm trying to do things. Selene and Jack are going through the cave. Glowing eyes, creepy comments. Hearing creepy voice. Ok. Now I remember where the last chapter ended. 

Story will end: Selene dies. Jack and crew become immortal because maybe one day I'll actually write that sequel. Richard, Selene's dad kills her. How? Idk, maybe he'll summon a demon to hunt down people with silver eyes for the rest of eternity, ya know, to go with the sequel that I forgot what I wanted to do with. 

Brainstorming:

Really liking the demon idea. Reallllllyyyy liking.

How would that curse work though? 

RAWR I'm Richard Corkweather and I sacrifice my life (because the scumbag has to die. He HAS to) to summon you demon so you can haunt my child's descendants for all of eternity. Nah. Selene's kids are still a secret to most of the world.

OH! What if...

Richard summons demon. Demon kills Selene. Demon turns on Richard, kills Richard. Demon goes to kill Jack. The crew get curious and some travel into the cave. Band together with Jack, all defeat demon. All get immortality (still need to figure that one out). I think I want Richard to die first. Maybe he can summon a water demon and Selene can use her magic to highjack it and have it kill Richard first. Yeahhhhh I like that. Fuck I have to go to work.

He was going to be the death of her.

5/19/2020

Flow of chapter:

Jack and Selene enter cave

In awe of beauty maybe. Yea let's do that. It'll be glowing from within, stalagmites hanging down, pools of water under most of them. One really big one hanging down dripping into a pool of water that's the source of light, we'll call that the make immortal juice. Sparkling rocks. 

Richard shows up

Monologue. About how much he hates Selene and her mom and how they ruined his plans. 

Says magic words, demon appears.

Selene will recognize demon from Tia Dalma

Start fighting demon, will highjack demon by knocking it into normal water. 

Demon kills Richard

The effort kills Selene. Why? Idk she just dies at the end. Always has been part of the plan, always will. Reasoning: she was poisoned while she was captured, had been drinking a suppressant to live long enough to kill Richard. 

Jack tries to make her drink some of the immortal juice. 

Doesn't work. Why? Immortal juice doesn't work that way. Will make whoever drinks it have a realllllyyyy long life, but if fatally injured can't do shit. I think there's another term for that. I'll have to look it up.

Demon starts attacking again once Selene's heart stops.

About that time some of the crew burst in and help Jack kill the demon.

Selene's dying words, Jack and crew drink immortal juice. Spend the rest of their lives helping kids who had lives like Selene.

Lots of tears, lots of emotion (that'll be hard to write) 

Jack and crew go their separate ways to fulfill her dying wish

Some kind of foreshadowing about Selene having kids. Descendants and Jack will meet one day (if I ever write that sequel)  

NOW TO START WRITING

Welp I just completely lost my thought process because my ex just tried to put himself back in my life.

3/8/2021

I hate myself. I haven't touched any of this in months and what did I have typed up for the last chapter? 1 f****** sentence. I'm so ashamed. I'm glad I have this to help me remember my train of thought though.

3/15/2021

Am I going to write this chapter while on the clock at work? I am going to try. I just had some idea to do with the demon, what was it???? Oh. Trap demon in cave, maybe someone on Selene's crew knows a touch of magic. This is such a sloppy chapter. Too many extra details. I didn't focus enough on her crew in the beginning of the book. I need to be careful to not overload with details. Hold up, gotta catch a Pokémon real quick. Anyone wanna add me and do raids? Send me a private message. I'm trying to have a way to connect with the people I add. Ha. So off topic. I need to focus. 

I did not get shit done. I have rewritten the first (and only) sentence. I have the worst writers block I have ever experienced when attempting to write. I have also cringed horribly when rereading the published chapters. I am not a very good author, but its fineeeee I'm still going to finish this for those of you who want an update. But it might have to wait until Thursday. Fuck I still have homework to do. Ughhhhhh

7/3/2021

Hahaha. I was supposed to be working on this. There's still only 1 sentence. Wtf. This is sad. So many extra unnecessary details in the first several chapters. What was I going to do with Jolene? I don't remember.

Oh OK, brainstorming is flowing. Jim and some of the other crew trap the demon in a necklace Jim was given by Tia Dalma then once everyone is out seal the cave closed because now they're all immortal they don't need anything else. Someone has a bottle on them that they fill up with the water that way they can share it with the others on the ship and a select part of Jack's crew.

Only shit I actually finished writing it! Now just to proofread and post! Hell yes!
I am finally semi-satisfied with this story.

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