I which I find my ending changes my beginning

Well, as I mentioned to my loyal reader, I fell asleep and didn't make yesterday's entry. Not that I had all that much to say, mind you, and the sleep probably did me some good. But I did think a lot about the story today, and I have a climax for it now... In fact, I think I have an ending I'm pretty happy with. But it got much darker than I had originally intended. I'd rather intended for this to be like an adventure. I'd really intended it be an adventure instigated by Athena in the guise of a teacher, rather like a Magic Tree House or Chasing Vermeer sort of thing. But the ending doesn't really go with that idea. But the ending feels right. So now I'm rethinking the beginning. Maybe this'll be a darker piece than I orginally intended. It certainly is going that way now. And maybe I need to shelve the Athena idea, and make it more... something-or-other... I guess, not so god-guided as I had intended. I've been working on the Hades figure, and the all-wise, goddess-like Athena figure isn't really parallel to what I have for that. So if there are other gods or goddesses, they have to be more reality-based, as it were. More like mortals with the foibles of gods rather than gods with the foibles of mortals. That sort of thing.

See, with the Athena idea, I had planned to whip off a quick adventure, and leave lots of room open for other adventures in the series that would support me in my old age ;). Athena would move from school to school and inspire a myth-like adventure for a few of the kids. A nice, open-ended sort of thing that could go on for books and books. The thing it's evolving into, however, doesn't at first glance have much sequel potential. But I think it's a better story. The end I envisioned this morning just seemed so right that it's worth rethinking the opening concept. I had a hard time figuring out what to do with Athena figure anyway, and getting from my envisioned opening to the story was going to be a problem. I think the characters will have to fall into the main action by their own actions, and if they are guided into them, it will be in a much more subtle way.

The story will have more meat to it this way. I need to look up a few topics that seemed like a good idea to work into the thing, but I think I'm starting to feel my way toward a workable story.

And if it doesn't work, well, there's always the series plan to fall back on.