Now at the point where I get jittery about just informally putting a bad draft up for initial feedback
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It's late and I'm tired. Here is the new DRAFT epilogue of Ra, featuring foreshadowed space capsule window-breaking action https://qntm.org/files/ra/end2/nonlocal.html … Less confident about this one than any of the other chapters. The last ~300 words are in a lot of flux and could be removed entirely
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This thing consumes too much psychological overhead. I need it to be done. Had very similar sensations when I was originally trying to end it
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"There Is No Antimemetics Division" went better I think because it was deliberately time-boxed to one year
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The observer effect is when scintillatingly obvious problems with your writing are impossible to perceive until the instant that you make that writing visible to other people
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I'm having difficulty following the ending. They're building a bigger Ra to fight Ra? Why?
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Because one of the people who went to Sirius, an Adam King-like personality who is responding to Abstract War in an equally unhealthy way, thinks this will accomplish something
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Maybe you just need to be told that it's good. I wish it ended on a happier note, unless you plan on making some kind of sequel. Nice to see people still wanting the world to be a better place even when it was snatched away from them for seemingly all time.
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My current plans for a sequel are to never do a sequel
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I decided to read Ra for the third time when I found out you were rewriting its conclusion. Still one of my favourite stories - with either ending.
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Thanks!
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