I’m going to try percolating on how my antagonists make their presence known, given all this is from the first person point of view; specifically, Deepon and Carol. At 15k words and counting, I got a ways to go to make this baby novel length, technically speaking, when I reach 40k length.
Right now, I’m gonna see how viable having a certain type of cultural background apply to my mysterious behind-the-scenes people will be.
(knocks wood)
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