At the writing stage where I hate everything and want to scrap it all to start again because how can I possibly continue with such a terrible draft and what even are words.
That's how you know you're on the right track ๐๐ญ
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Nothing brightens my day like finding out random people have - totally unprompted - been recommending my #TombRaider novels where I don't normally hang out online.
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It's been one crisis after another these past weeks at Chez Jenni. Hoping things will quieten down for a while so I have enough spoons left for writing - this book isn't going to write itself ๐ ๐
Hope I'm not tempting fate...
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Don't worry, he doesn't die.
Though if you read my novel #PotBA, partly inspired by Murti's beta notes for the (abandoned) sequel, he almost wishes he had ๐ฌ๐
This chapter has been like Sisyphus' boulder. Couldn't figure out why. Then stripped away the dross and realised that, structurally, it *already ended* 4 paragraphs earlier than planned.
Cue Boaz levels of dismemberment and reconstruction ๐
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Changes to medication, health up and down like a yo-yo, and now another heatwave. Sometimes it feels like the #AoD curse is real and is doing everything it can to make sure this danged book never gets finished ๐ญ
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Screenshot from Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness (remastered) showing the main villain, Eckhardt, in a grey suit lying dead against a pillar with three Periapt Shards sticking out of his body
Who else can empathise with Eckhardt right now? ๐
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Screenshot from the Labyrinth level of Tomb Raider: Chronicles (Remastered) showing a young Lara Croft seated on a church pew at night, with candles all around, and a suspiciously large skeleton draped in a shroud sitting beside her.
"The book... from the library...!"
Note that Father Patrick doesn't say "labyrinth". He thought Lara had actually found the full-blown *library* โ the library he *knew* was down there.
*cough* foreshadowing *cough*
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37. The first chapter is set in a place mentioned in the epilogue of PotBA.
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36. ... but that doesn't mean Lara is happy about it.
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35. Eckhardt's memories come in handy on more than one occasion.
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34. Boaz and Muller might be dead but โ as was already proved in the Kriegler โ their experiments live on.
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33. Lara's wardrobe choices, especially in the first few chapters, are *very* important.
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32. The Appendices will include a full timeline.
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31. The covers of each of the three books includes a secret message written in the Enochian angelic script made famous by Dr John Dee in the 1500s.
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30. 2WEI's cover of In The End really captures the story's overall mood (and will be included in the book's playlist).
youtu.be/XtkCkMwmqVU?...
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29. Not to mention Lara has some... interesting... stories to confe-- er, bring Kurtis up to speed on.
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28. ... but yeah, they're both dealing with a lot of messed-up personal issues individually, let alone between them.
Plus, they've known each other less than a fortnight, much of which has been spent apart.
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27. That's not to say they don't make a good team...
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26. Stating it up front: Lara and Kurtis' relationship isn't a straightforward bluebirds-and-roses (or even pistols-and-Chirugai) romance. At all. Apologies in advance to any die-hard Lartis fans.
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25. Really struggling not to give away any spoilers now ๐
@lara-tito.bsky.social has produced the cover to match with her previous two sextant-inspired designs.
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24. And learn (the hard way) more about how Irenweapns function.
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23. In fact, we get to see a LOT more Irenweapn action.
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22. Morgau ended PotBA with her Culcrys Irenweapn. Now we get to see her use it ๐
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21. Gunderson also makes a reappearance. And yes, like Rouzic, he's holding a grudge.
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20. Rouzic is back, for all you fans of sadism and body horror ๐
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19. The first draft of PotBA and the last book were written together as one long story.
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18. There will be a couple of familiar faces turn up - and several new ones, naturally ๐
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17. The Nephilim's language is loosely based on ancient Sumerian and will also have its own entry in the Appendices explaining names etc.
Hugely helpful research tool = Pennsylvania Sumerian Dictionary Portal ๐ oracc.museum.upenn.edu/epsd2/
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16. @lara-tito.bsky.social, Tina Ljubenkov, and Murti himself have provided tons of discussions, photographs, and even video footage to help inform the descriptions of Derinkuyu (or at least, those parts inhabited by humans...)
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