Suddenly A Succubus Ch. 11 - Reflection

We're so close to the end of the first book I've ever written! AHH! It's crazy how one day I was just like "I'm gonna write this little silly story thing" and now I'm like... doing it and I've written so much about her.

One thing I thought a lot about  when writing these last few chapters (Like, 10 and onwards) was the length of them. The first two chapters were pretty short, I think around 4.5k words, but the chapters kept getting longer after that. The longest is, by far, chapter 6, where Amara discovers her wings.

What was weird was when I got to the later chapters and realized they were all getting a little shorter again? Now, I think I've mentioned this before, but I don't believe longer = better. Tell the story you want to tell, if it's longer cool, if it's not whatever. It still felt a little odd to start writing out some of the major plot points in these last chapters and to have them come up on the shorter end of things. I know I'd feel bad if people got to the ending, or some big reveal, and were like "Oh shit that was over quick." I enjoy building that tension, the anticipation of what might happen, and I want the climax to feel suitable to the story.

What I'm saying is that, as dramatic as these last few chapters are, they're pretty reasonably paced. I hope that's okay!

We start on a relatively light, fun bit of sex. Tessa gets to be the top, Amara gets to play with her plugs that I teased waaaay back in Chapter 1, good times. Did you know this sex scene is the closest I've ever gotten to just flat-out transcribing some of my own sex? It's practically a 1-to-1 translation. 

The second closest was that time I fucked my girlfriend with my tail while she was trapped in vines, BUT they were sentient vines from the Amazon, not from [REDACTED] which is where the vines trapping Tessa were from, so that's a totally different thing.

Amara does get a chance to experiment more with her own abilities, even if it's just testing their limits against some pesky restraining holy magic. That's still helpful!

And finally, at long last, we get to Vee.

I don't remember how exactly I thought about it, but when I started the book I thought it would be really fun to have a scene from Vee's perspective every odd chapter (Not counting 1, obviously). While she did end up with an extra scene here and there, I'm really happy with the pacing this decision created. We get enough insight into her to see what's happening, but we're not following every single beat the way we are with Amara.

After smelling sulfur on Nick, she goes to the one person who knows Nick best to try and follow the trail. When I first outlined the scene, I imagined a bigger montage of all the clues Vee has scene about Amara being the succubus, but it felt too drawn out to include them when I actually wrote it out.

She saw Amara's eyes glow after confronting Derek, Nick forgot that they were pretending Amara was sick that one week, things like that. 

Vee's realization is definitely one of those scenes I mentioned earlier, one that I hope feels suitably cathartic given the buildup, even though it's honestly a pretty short scene. If I've played my cards correctly, there will be a lot of room to make some pretty educated guesses on where things are gonna go from here.

(They're gonna settle it over a game of Melee, no items, Fox only, Final Destination)

Nyx <3