Thread:AngryLance/@comment-37028137-20200128044919/@comment-37028137-20200309014432

Greetings Lance,

I'll try to explain this next bit in very simple terms.

The 'Montage' would come in this first third (1/3) of the book, after Nicholas has fallen from the future (and meeting the version of Vellantha which already knew him. Spoilers maybe?) into the past where he actually forms his friendship with her in the first place.

After freeing what will become Vellantha's future Kingdom of Rathengalia from the Order the pair will have only know each other for roughly five weeks in that time line. (Though Nicholas will have known Vellantha for over a year (1 Year) from spending that time trapped in the future without his TARDIS.)

It's actually not as confusing as it sounds once you manage to wrap your head around Nicholas' fall back in time by around 14,000 years. Which is where the second third (2/3) of the book will take place.

In any case because they've only known each other for 5 weeks (Plus Nick's 1 Year) and this is a time travel story about a pair of Immortal protagonists with a friendship spanning at least 14,000 years (in the first and second parts of the book) I want to have many time jumps just to ramp up the feeling that they've been adventuring a while. This montage would just kickstart that whole process.

The final third of the book will actually see Nick having lived through those 14,000 or so years to actually return to the future where it all started and then the pair will have around another 10,000 or so during that third (3/3) of the book.

To make it even more complex Nicholas when he's around 22,500 years old will briefly (very briefly, as in part of one chapter.) be flung into the far future of Rathengalia's history and meet a version of Vellantha and a version of himself whom are around 300,000 years old. Just so I can basically hit home to the reader that "They get their happy ending after all the bad shit is done with; and Rathengalia will remain Order free forever."

Again I detest bad ends so I really want to make it clear.

So have I completely confused you or are you following all this?

I actually have a TimeLine chart of their history pulled up on my screen as I'm writing this. (Yes I went that in depth with the lore and backstory.)

As for saving the montages for another story, that won't happen I basically set out to write this novel with the underlying notion of: "Okay I'm going to add everything into this one novel that I as a Science Fiction and Fantasy nerd want to see (but haven't) in a Fan Fiction work." But that means I'm only ever going to write this novel, I'll never do another one. (Heck finding the time to do this one has been hard and exhausting.)

Ah also by the by I contacted Sir Vengeance and asked his opinion on the montage (per your advice) to see what he thinks of the idea.

Let me know if you want me to explain any of this to you if it doesn't make sense.

Hmm you basically are getting a preview of the entire novel from begining to end in this little blurb. (Minus the surprises of course.)

Cheers,

The Weary TimeLord.