There will be some event-consolidating happening with the last third of this book. It's not to save space, or try and come under (or possibly, just above) 450 pgs for ACoM. This is actually for the plot to be more cohesive and coherent. This move is strictly to have actions, for both the antagonists and protagonists, make sense. How the politics play out also boxes the protagonists into a quagmire (God, you don't get to use that word too often. It just means an awkward, complex, or hazardous situation. Anyway...) where now it looks like taking actions against their enemies without severe (dire or dreadful, even ... I say, I say, that's a joke, boy. Keep up) consequences.
An event will be added to the mix that will postpone the events scheduled to take place in this next chapter. All events should fit neatly into one chapter. The dilemma, however, is after these events (and because of the necessity to consolidate plot points) the chronology of the rest of the book could happen in any order, with a slight tweaking of reasoning for each event.
This is where I stand at the moment. I'm scripting an outline, which looks more like a flow chart, of the final events, reasonings behind them, and consolidated plot lines that will carry me to the end of the book -- which hopefully will come to a close come early Feb, for a mid-Feb release.
b write black.
