Three Chapters of History… What?!

Demon: “What the hell is this? Are you freakin’ kidding me?”

RB: “Nope.”

Angel: “What’s going on?”

Demon: “Read this shit!” Demon shoves the papers at Angel.

Angel: “Don’t be rude, Demon,” She begins to read. “I don’t see the problem.”

Demon: “Damn. Of course you don’t, Ms. Attention-to-Detail, so I’ll point it out to you. RB has three damn chapters of nothing but history in her new manuscript! THREE DAMN CHAPTERS?!“

Angel: “Yes, but it’s written well, and it isn’t actually boring. Very informative, connects the plot elements, and-”

Demon: “If someone wants to read that much history in a fiction book, they need to pick up a non-fiction book. This is bull-”

RB: “The history isn’t non-fiction, Demon. It’s fictional history. And it’s relevant.”

Demon: “Condense it!”

RB: “This is condense.”

Angel: “Well… If you don’t mentions these areas… and these specific people and… How about highlighting only the key elements instead of drawing out the complete history? Spread it out a bit… maybe.”

RB: “I fear leaving out something important. And if I put it all together it makes it easy to go back to instead of spreading it out and making the reader forget what they read.”

Demon: “Bullshit is bullshit. Delete half of it. And throw a fight in there or some explosives.”

RB: “Hmmmmm… Fine, I’ll rework it and see where it goes.”

RbH

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