Nov 29 2007

The cutting room floor

Working on finishing up the story I’m on (featuring the urban mage I created a while back). Due to some issues I mentioned a few posts ago, I ended up completely rewriting the ending. It meant cutting a scene and a few lines I’m kinda fond of, but that’s how things work sometimes. I’ll probably still work some of this in to the final draft.

Originally I was going to use some fun fonts to get across the magical elements, but that’s kind of a pain in an electronic setting (the person receiving would have to have the same font for it to work, right?), so I’ve nixed that idea. This was my favorite portion of the cut material (there was a little before this and a lot after).

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