Stir Crazy In Depth

So... Stir Crazy. :P

I wrote this as a little thing to check in on Martha. I know that there's only been one part in between this and when they found out that she was pregnant, but it's been a month of Martha not being able to leave the Space Between.

There's also a more complicated reason why I wrote this chapter:

When I started writing for the Space Between, I didn't start off with these characters. I started far into the future, when the universe that it's set in (The literal 'Space Between Worlds') was more advanced and had already been founded. It had a government, a system for how things worked, and the most important thing: It didn't have any of these characters as the main ones.

It didn't get very far. A couple of chapters, not even enough to count as a part, but it was enough to kickstart what kind of world I wanted to build, and to this day, even though I know some things will have changed by the time I get to it, is something that I work towards. Already, a lot has changed because I've gone back and done all of this, and it was because of my Husband/Editor. He suggested that I make a 'Prologue' to it to explain how the universe of the Space Between came to be.

It was what the Prologue of this is now, the first five chapters, but when I wrote it, I decided that I really liked the characters, and I wanted to flesh them out and the world they lived in better. It was a great decision, as there are characters/items/worlds/etc. that I would have never put in beforehand. I have so much fun exploring this world, that I can't imagine that I would've just skipped fifty years or so ahead.

That being said, I do still write for some of the things that will be in the future. Not my first draft of what it was going to be about, as I don't believe I'll be able to do that storyline anymore, but additional content that I will (hopefully) publish when the time comes for those characters to be a part of the larger scope of the story.

But with the world being so far ahead of where the story is now, they have a lot of things that the characters don't have in the past. And one of those things is Smart Glass.

TLDR; I wrote it because Smart Glass exists in the future.

-EDR