It's been a while since my last post. That's due to Sunder's slow progress. Nothing has seemed worthy of a post.
Until today. Today, Sunder begins to make sense.
From Sunder's conception, the logic behind the plot was blatantly weak. I continued on, however, in the expectation that things would work themselves out before the end. Today, some biggies fell into place.
I was aware that the entire world portal system was much too complicated to work well in a simple story. The main problem was devising an explanation for why the kidnappers have to travel across all the parallel words to return with the child, when no such detours plagued them when they traveled to the child's world. This and a few other significant problems all centered around the subterranean portal system that, if not answered satisfactorily, wound topple the entire story. Eureka! or Shazam, or whatever it is writers shout. The answer is so simple (as you would expect) and came with an added major plot bonus. I now know how the crystal and shard play the key roll in the plot's resolution. Two birds with one stone!
I know now that I am on the right track and believe the ending of the tale, which is undetermined as yet, to be on far more solid footing. How do you know when a solution is correct? When in retrospect you can't believe it took you so long to see what was right in front of your nose.
