I edited eleven pages of Ben today. That may not seem like much after all this time, but it is real, forward progress at last. Finally, finally, Ben’s story is starting to come together.
And I don’t think I’ll have to change him too terribly much to make it all work. (So relax, Ben fans.)
It helped realizing that when he lands on the Dream, he’s never actually been on his own before. He started college early, went straight from med school to the Fleet… Now he only has Eve to tell him what to do when he doesn’t trust her yet. So yeah. Boy’s a bit lost.
Lucky for him one of my themes is “when your head’s underwater, believe in mermaids.”
No, I won’t be explaining that.
No, there are no mermaids in this story.