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 Hello there! It's been a little quiet around here, hasn't it? 

Well, I've been occupied in the past week or so working out an upcoming freelance gig. So while that was going on, I was unfortunately unable to focus on writing Intersection. But I will get back round to things soon, I hope. 

I'm pretty stoked for this latest job I've landed though. I'll be editing a work of fiction in the fantasy genre. Sincerely hope that will go well. Wish me luck! 

Meanwhile, I've been doing some thinking about one of my so-called main characters. I'm actually considering whether to take this particular character out of the story altogether. She doesn't seem to be completely necessary to the plot and also is in some ways the odd one out in comparison to the other main characters. I haven't entirely decided on this one, but I guess I'll update you on that one should it ever come to that. 

Another background thing that I've been doing for Intersection is I've been reading a book about dealing with the death of a sibling. Not sure if I've mentioned it before, but there is quite a prominent sub-theme of death in this story and more than one character has experienced the loss of a sibling. So I've been trying to figure out how to describe the challenges they face in an authentic way and also to see how it's possible for the characters who had a similar experience to comfort each other. 

It's hard to write about things you haven't experienced yourself, yet I don't want to avoid addressing it in my writing just because of that. So hopefully having input from friends about their personal  experiences (I have an old uni friend I met with lately to thank for that perspective) and reading about how others deal with these things will help. 

That's all the updates I have to offer you for now. Toodle-oo! 

Revisit

My husband, Deric and I usually have limited time to chat in the morning before he heads off to work. So I was talking at warp speed today just so I could finish sharing my updated plot for Intersection with him before he cabut to KL. 

"I think might need to draw it out," he said, referring to my list of characters which I guess at some point became a little overwhelming for him to digest.

Over breakfast today, I decided to try creating such a diagram. Basically, it listed all the characters (both main ones as well as the minor role ones) and highlighted the relationships between them. Sorta like an Entity Relationship Diagram, to quote some leftover knowledge from my IT days. 

You can catch a glimpse of it in the photo above. 

Didn't realise that it's pretty elaborate the connections I've created in the story. Hmm. 

I'll formally introduce you to my main characters in a different post. Gotta run for now.