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After lots of intense negotiations (okay, after I asked nicely), Rob Justice of the BearSwarm podcast has agreed to host a question and answer podcast with me about Act I of Whitechapel! If you have questions about the story, the writing process, the podcast production, or even just personal questions about me, you can email Rob at whitechapel@bearswarm.com over the course of the next week, and he’ll pepper me with them while I try to answer them with some sort of logic and sanity. We’ll record sometime next week, and it’ll be posted both here and on the BearSwarm podcast sometime in early December.

Looking forward to answering your questions!

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Mister Rich revealed some tantalizing information about Six’s past, although he was wary of Six’s true intentions. After Six had some food, a shower, and some new clothes, Mister Rich was followed by two police officers to the run-down motel that they were staying at. The situation escalated, and Six killed one of the officers with his mind while Mister Rich was wounded in a gunfire exchange with the second officer. Six realized that the cops were fake, but just as he was pulling Mister Rich’s car around to get him to a hospital, a black van showed up at the other end of the motel parking lot.

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Six was picked up from the Whitechapel Project by Mister Rich, a man who knew Six before his memory loss. Mister Rich confronted Six about his disguise as Dr. Tucci, but after Six told Mister Rich the truth, he decided to trust Six for now. They went to a run-down motel, where Mister Rich revealed that Six was found in London, England, and that his powers are as dangerous to Six as they are to everyone around him. After Mister Rich went to get new clothes for Six, he came back saying he was followed. Six leaves the motel, and notices two police officers asking questions of the other motel patrons.

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Six escaped from his cell at the Whitechapel Project, only to be picked up by a black car driven by a man known only as Mister Rich. The mysterious driver seemed to play into Six’s disguise as Dr. Tucci, one of the employees of the Whitechapel Project, but when they arrived at their pre-arranged meeting place of Eden Park, both Six and Mister Rich found a wreck with the skinned body of Dr. Tucci inside. Six confessed to everything that happened, and Mister Rich admitted to knowing Six previously. They drove to a run-down motel, where Mister Rich offered to answer a couple of questions in order to satisfy Six’s curiosity.

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First off, I decided to write Night Fall, the parody novel of female vampire hunter "bad girl" protagonists, featuring Katrina Night. I even mocked up a fake book cover last week and posted it on Flickr, to help me visualize the book itself more clearly. I covered the various reasons why I didn't pick the other novel options a while back. I spent some of my post-surgery recovery time brainstorming and jotting down random ideas that have come to me, and man, I have tons of ideas for this. I'm actually having difficulty narrowing them all down, which is a good sign, I think.

One thing that came up over the past week or so, however, is the question "Why do NaNoWriMo at all?" Chuck Wendig actually did a good job playing devil's advocate over on his blog (which, if you are not reading, you should be), and I think it's good to spell out my specific reasons for doing this.

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Thanks to everyone for being patient with the extra week. If you’ve been interested in what’s being going on with my health, you can check out the “health”-tagged entries on my LiveJournal. Otherwise, let’s dive into this.

Author’s Commentary

This episode poured out pretty easily. I had envisioned Mr. Rich acting in some advisory capacity to Six back before I started episode four, and this was a case where the voting just bore out where I was inclined to go anyway. I tried to keep this episode from being a bunch of exposition, but the inherent distrust between the two characters made that pretty easy — so easy, in fact, that I actually never really got to the exposition at all.

This actually ended up working in my favor, because I got to try something I’ve been wanting to do since I saw it on some other serial fiction sites — a poll with multiple options. Selecting what questions to ask Mr. Rich seemed like a natural use of that.

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A few quick things that Whitechapel readers might be interested in.

• Shadow Freak is the sorry bastard lucky winner of the Agent Mission contest. He (or someone with his name, at least) will be dying in a future episode of Whitechapel. Congrats, Freak!
• I recorded a short Whitechapel promotional piece for The Podge Cast, episode 60. It’s intentionally done in a slightly raw style (similar to my White Wolf Blogcast), but it’s around fifty-eight and a half minutes into the episode, if you’re interested. It was fun and easy to do, so I might send them more “hodges” in future. Many thanks to David Pinilla and the rest for letting me babble a bit about my baby!
• Finally, I’m seriously considering doing NaNoWriMo this year. However, I’m not entirely sure which novel I’m going to write. If you want to help me out, you can sneak over to my LiveJournal and vote on any options you like.

As a reminder, voting will be two weeks long for Episode 5, so get some friends to come over and vote on which questions Six should ask!

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Six escaped from his cell at the Whitechapel Project disguised as Dr. Tucci, one of the project’s employees. After leaving his prison, a black car pulled up that seemed strangely familiar, and Six was told to get in. During the ride, the mysterious driver referred to him as Dr. Tucci, but asked some unconnected questions, constantly keeping Six on the ropes. They finally arrived at Eden Park, where the meeting between the driver and Dr. Tucci was supposed to take place, and they found Tucci’s car wrecked on the side of one of the park’s roads. Inside the car was a corpse completely missing its skin. As Six examined the body, the driver shoved him against the car, put a gun to Six’s head, and demanded to know what happened.

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Things still look good for releasing episode 5 of Whitechapel tomorrow. However, I have oral surgery late next week (I’m having four wisdom teeth removed), which means I’m going to be on pain meds and healing when I would normally be writing and recording episode 6. In fact, the oral surgeon specifically said “You’re not going to be able to focus or concentrate for long stretches while you’re recovering, and I’m pretty sure both are required for writing.”

Actually, we were talking about my day job writing, but the principle is the same. Also, I think I need my mouth to be working in order to record podcasts, since I haven’t figured out the “brain to computer” plug-in for Audacity.

On top of that, at the end of the month is the International Camarilla Convention here in Atlanta, which is a show I’m going to be working at all weekend. Even if I somehow kept the schedule on track around my oral surgery, that means I would have to try to write and record episode 7 around ICC, which is also pretty damned unlikely. (Especially since I’m going to try to record material at the show for my other podcast, the White Wolf Blogcast.)

To solve both problems, I’m going to bump the voting period for episode 5 to two weeks instead of one. This means that voting for episode 5 will close at midnight (EST) on Wednesday, October 21st, episode 6 will be available for reading and download on Wednesday, October 28th, voting for that episode will run until November 4th, and so on. I’m going to try to have my usual post-mortem post for episode 5 on the 21st, but we’ll see what shape I’m in at that stage. Think of it as more time to convince your fellow listeners to vote the way you think they should, or as me conducting research into blood, pain, and discomfort to help the story along.

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Author’s Commentary

Over the past few episodes, I had fallen into a rhythm with writing episodes of Whitechapel: post-mortem on Wednesday (which, after last episode’s close voting, I’m going to probably bump to Thursdays to let the poll close before I comment), first 1000 words on Thursday, revision and last 500-1000 words on Friday, let it sit for two days to think over, and final revision on Monday before recording on Tuesday.

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Six wakes up with amnesia, and escapes from his cell after killing a guard with his mind. He breaks into the office of Dr. Harold Tucci and learns that he’s part of something called the Whitechapel Project. Using a different aspect of his powers, he disguises himself as Dr. Tucci and manages to convince another guard to help him escape. As Six is enjoying the winter air, a mysterious black car pulls up and opens one of its doors invitingly.

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Author’s Commentary

I wasn’t entirely sure how this episode was going to turn out, to be honest. When the vote was firmly cast for bluffing, I had to think about how he could actually do that in a plausible way. I did have a note that VI had the potential for changing his appearance, but I didn’t expect to have to trot it out so soon. Plus, I do have a firm vision for VI’s powers and how they work (in case you haven’t noticed, they all have intentionally violent overtones), so I had to make that all hang together while also being internally consistant. It was a lot to juggle.

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A man known only by the roman numeral six wakes up in a padded cell. He discovers he has strange abilities when he turns his guard into a bloody mess just by thinking about it. Six makes his way into the empty office of a Dr. Harold Tucci, who turns out to be part of something called the Whitechapel Project. Six also discovers a stack of currency from a number of countries, as well as a pistol. He’s about to leave when an alarm goes off, and someone is knocking at the door.

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As a side note, about half-way through the voting I heard a couple of concerns that the IP and cookie tracking I had implemented made it hard for businesses and multi-reader households to vote separately. So, I changed it to just cookie tracking, so multiple computers on the same IP can vote. This means that some of you might have had the chance to vote multiple times. If so… eh, I’m cool. If people are so passionate that they check back and vote as often as I can, I’m totally okay with it. I just don’t want people writing vote-bots or spamming the polls.

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• The Bear Swarm! podcast did an episode with an "interview" with me (really me just talking about Whitechapel and bring a writer in this crazy business of ours).
• The Darker Days podcast had me as a guest host for their eighth episode, as well as doing a lengthy Q&A with me.

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A hospital patient wakes up in a padded room with a massive headache. The only clue he has to his identity is a plastic bracelet with the letters “VI” printed on it. As he tries to figure out who he is and what’s happened to him, a man dressed in business casual clothing steps into the cell. The patient realizes that the well-dressed man is his captor and imagines slashing at him, only to find the jailer in a bloody mess at his feet. The patient steals a card key from the corpse and opens the cell door, all the time trying to understand this ability to kill with his mind.

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A quick note from GenCon. The poll is closed, and it looks like VI stands for the roman numeral for six, carrying over 50% of the vote. Thanks to everyone who voted!