PoB - The room of crimson
Assessed around 7.4K words on Nov 25th.
I’m past the halfway point of the first draft now. Erthel faces doubts about her workplace, suffers post-sleep hallucinations and makes an important choice during a funeral. Then she goes at the high bloodline’s estate so her gift can be tested for anomalies (in the so called room of crimson) - and things go royally splat, just as they should. In the meanwhile, Mr. Doublecrosser gives to the reader some pretty creepy insights about what he’s willing to do to achieve his goals.
The scene in the room of crimson is one of my favourites in the whole novel, even if the writing is clumsy here and there. It touches right on my weak spots and ancestral fears. I remember clearly how I was shaking while writing it, last summer, deep at night, the whole house silent and dark - torn between “OMG I could pee myself” and “OMG this is so cool”.
Or, as I put it my novel notes from around that time:
“I can’t decide if the fact that after all this time I still manage to scare myself shitless while writing is silly or just plain awesome.”
