This is my new favorite chapter!!! Everything about the flowof the story, the conversations, how it led to this point, the timing, it all fits. I cannot stress this enough.
To be honest, It always bothered me in the past whenever I see your story with the title The Color of Darkness. It always felt to me like it was some fantasy/horror story but then the synopsis turns out to be YA. And after reading the first Chapter and being impressed, I was going to suggest a title change (how rude of me) into something like "Our Way with Words"
Now with this chapter, I get it now. Darkness as a blank canvas. A metaphor for life. I've written prose before with the same idea. It was entitled "Jetstreams" about the fleetingness of life at the expanse of the sky. Anyway, I also now get why her name had to be Nova. A star in the dark.
Now this is why I get the feeling that Nova may die.
To be honest, It always bothered me in the past whenever I see your story with the title The Color of Darkness. It always felt to me like it was some fantasy/horror story but then the synopsis turns out to be YA. And after reading the first Chapter and being impressed, I was going to suggest a title change (how rude of me) into something like "Our Way with Words"
Now with this chapter, I get it now. Darkness as a blank canvas. A metaphor for life. I've written prose before with the same idea. It was entitled "Jetstreams" about the fleetingness of life at the expanse of the sky. Anyway, I also now get why her name had to be Nova. A star in the dark.
Now this is why I get the feeling that Nova may die.