this is gonna take a while. but it just might be worth it

[thehefner]

Hoo boy. Okay, good news and bad news for those of you following the progress of my Harvey Dent novel.

The bad news is that it's gonna be a couple more months before the next draft will be done, now that I realize just how much I'm gonna need to revise, restructure, reorder, and just plain write. Nothing like working on a book for two years and realizing that you're gonna need to rewrite a good third of the whole shebang.

The good news?

I finally know how it ends.

I mean, I thought I knew before, but no. Now, I think I've really got it. The giddy rush I've felt all afternoon is only now starting to fade as I ponder how the hell I'm gonna pull it off. But it's perfect. More perfect than it was before, at least. And I liked how it ended before, but now... oh yes. Oh yes. If this isn't it, then it's right in the neighborhood. This is how you truly end the downfall of Harvey Dent and the origin of Two-Face, in a way that no one has EVER done before, yet is absolutely true to the heart of the character(s).

Here's a hint: the coin isn't the crutch that everyone thinks it is. It was at the start, after the acid hit. But that's not what it became when Harvey really became Two-Face.

Let's just cryptically put it this way: suburbfabulous, tragical_mirth, you were right. Now, I realize, Harvey truly would be half of a Green Lantern, not Blue. It's not about hope, passively/helplessly standing by and hoping for salvation. From how things look right now... it really is all about willpower. I still think Blue would look better, but there now seems little room for doubt. It's the Green light that keeps the Red rage at bay.

Not that I've been trying to figure out the best way to actually make a Two-Face Green/Red Lantern costume for this year's Project: Rooftop costume contest, along with a revised, sexier, nastier, and professionally-photographed version of our Two-Face and Typhoid Mary costumes, which I'm honestly using for THE HEFNER MONOLOGUES: HOW HEFNERIAN, thereby giving me a legitimate excuse to cosplay for my job.

Heavens, no.

*cough*

Comments

[suburbfabulous.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you need a ring...I have a spare Hot Topic one.

[nectarousness.livejournal.com]

Ooh, hoorah! You seem pretty sure of yourself so I'm not all that worried. In fact, I'm even more excited! :D

[rosered2318.livejournal.com]

this is very exciting!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Hopefully this isn't one of those brilliant ideas that fizzles out when I actually try to apply it!

I so wanna talk to you about it, but I know I'm gonna need to meticulously plot out the rest of the new stuff to properly explain it. Which is good, in the sense that it'll force me to actually get thinking and writing rather than procrastinating by talking about how excited I am by what I'm GOING to do!

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

GL ring? I've got a handful, so that's no prob. It's a Red Lantern ring I'm gonna need.

If I had a couple hundred bucks to blow, I'd totally be getting this:

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you think so! Huzzah!

I was tempted to put this all behind a cut so as not to bother everyone but the small handful of like-minded weirdos who actually give a crap! :)

[nectarousness.livejournal.com]

Ooo, alright.

[thehefner.livejournal.com]

Once I write it up and send to to my editor for her thoughts, I'll pass the synopsis/game plan along to you.

[leiacat.livejournal.com]

Yay ending! Looking forward to meeting it when the time comes.