Go make with the reading and such.<\/a><\/p>\nThis series was a bit of a challenge. Like my other series, I had a kind of arc I wanted to cover with my main character. (Or characters, in this case.) But here I had this wildcard that I didn’t know when Cataclysm would go live. I had hoped that it would wait until after my protagonists had reached Westfall. I wanted the switch to Cataclysm to be a major turning point for both characters, and I wanted it to really show off the changes to the world. It didn’t work out that way. I had the idea of Norman getting rid of Gobstab and then calling him back, and I sort of held onto that so that it could be inserted whenever Blizzard decided to launch it. Sadly, my story was just getting started when it came time to make the switch. Even just one or two weeks would have been a lot nicer. Had to throw out quite a few jokes and ideas. Drat the luck.<\/p>\n
So Cataclysm ended up not being a very big deal in my story. There aren’t any major areas of destruction where my characters are working, and so I don’t think it will come up again for a few weeks. <\/p>\n
Ah well. It’s still fun to write.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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