I just got the final draft of Elevated chapter 5 in shape. After the post about the story overflowing its outline, I went back and looked at what I've added. A lot of it was exposition. It was good exposition and it belongs in the story. It just doesn't belong this early in the novel as the action is starting to pick up.
So, I gutted both big chunks of exposition, tightened them, and moved most of what was in them to later chapters. Then, I pulled in a bunch of stuff I'd had to push into chapter six. As it stands, chapter 5 is now a whopping 22 pages long, but it's much more coherent than the old, fifteen-page version was.
It will be hitting StoriesOnline.net on Friday.
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