Merlinscribe: The Journal of James P. Mallory

The elves are still stuck on the glacier, alas. I would prefer that none of my characters plots to kill any of my other characters for a while.

I hope to get my repost of Chapter One (in case I changed things materially) and Chapter Two posted this weekend. And of course, get up to date on posts again.

Meanwhile, have a bit of Rithdeliel backstory: https://merlinscribe-library.dreamwidth.org/1003.html

When I delivered The Enduring Flame: Book Three: The Phoenix Transformed to my publisher, it was over 250,000 words long -- appreciably longer than the previous two books in the trilogy. I was aware I would need to make significant cuts in the manuscript in order to prepare it for publication. Most of them were a matter of a few sentences here, a few paragraphs there ... but there were also three chapters in the first half of the book -- roughly 30,000 words -- that were almost entirely omitted.

As you will see, certain key scenes in these chapters -- such as Ahiran's meeting with the Firecrown -- were included almost unchanged in the final draft. Others were either cut substantially -- such as the stop at Kannatha Well -- or only summarized.

I present them here, for those of you who might find them of interest.
( The first thing they did at sunset was decide that they weren't going any farther tonight... )