User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/THE CHOSEN ONE: Update, September 15, 2009/@comment-20644-20090919040549

Yeah, something like that is very hard to do in a novel. You can make a character like that one-dimensional and scary in film with face paint and a few frightening facial expressions, but in a novel it's just plain difficult.

Anyway, I wrote an additional five pages today. I figured out how I wanted to frame a certain segment with Mace and got an additional five pages out, bringing the chapter's current total to ten. I have to write three more scenes, which, since they're relatively short, will probably only add another six or seven pages for a sixteen or seventeen page total. That's actually shorter than the last few. I think the last chapter was actually twenty.