Something something something, we win

Happy Thanksgiving! On this holiday of gratitude, I will give you a completely unrelated post.

Last month I took a long train ride, and wanted to use the time to do some writing. I finally decided to pick up Arith's story. It had been long-neglected as I went off to work on other writing projects. It's a far more complicated story than I expected. It spans a year of more with the characters, and there are a lot of characters. I'd left off writing just before the team was going to do a crazy game, to help boost morale. It's really a turning point for a couple of the characters, with their confidence. And their ability to just have fun, honestly. 

More stuff needs to happen after that, but I don't know what. Instead of sitting and agonizing over it, I decided to just plunge straight into the finale. Well, not exactly straight in. It's a long build to the climax, and it has a couple peaks of varying heights. 

At least now I'll have a much better sense of where the story's heading. I only had the most vague idea of the ending before I started writing it. But as usual, after spending that time with the characters, they've helped me see where they're going. 

I've almost finished. I'm still not sure what to put in some of the blank spaces I've left through the middle. In the last, largest one gap before the finale, I wrote a note to myself. So I'll remember that actual content needs to go in there. What does the note say? "Something something something." And why does it say that? Well, it's a line from Nimoma. "Something something something, we win."