A Far Sun update: story moving again

Cross-posted to my LiveJournal writing blog.

It's been a while since I blogged progress on my story, "A Far Sun." But now I'm moving again on the story, and I'm about 20-25 pages into act III. It's hard to estimate exactly, because I have a bunch of pages already written that aren't yet woven into the greater story, yet.

I had a lot to think about, and in the meantime I decided to invent the sun-skin language (which I have done, essentially). My heroes are fairly well beat up at the end of act II. In good story structure, they're supposed to be in big trouble, and of course they are. Act II is supposed to end at the lowest point for the heroes. Tied up as prisoners and injured is about as bad as it can get, for them. I just needed to figure out what they were going to do and how they were going to do it. And I have.

Of course they're going to continue on with where they're going. This is an action-adventure, and these are heroes. Only death can stop them (and maybe not even then). But I still wanted to have a good reason for them to be so determined. Well, that reason is pretty simple (but no spoilers at this time, however).

I have many good plot points to explore in act III. A big surprise, some smaller surprises, and a finale worthy of all the effort I've put into this story.