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21km bike ride, and as usu­al my mind waits till I’m as far away from my com­put­er as pos­si­ble before offer­ing up some bril­liant sto­ry sug­ges­tions. #writ­ing #rid­ing

— Patrick Johan­neson (@pjohanneson) July 11, 2020

And then I got home, and made some notes, and it turns out that the “bril­liant sto­ry sug­ges­tions” intro­duce some more con­flict, at the cost of mov­ing a few scenes around.

No spoil­ers for the short sto­ry, but it a) makes my antag­o­nist a more inter­est­ing char­ac­ter, b) makes my pro­tag­o­nist have to make a very dif­fi­cult deci­sion, and c) allows me to illu­mi­nate how the pro­tag­o­nist plays games with the truth.

And now, to actu­al­ly fin­ish this draft.