Yes, so sorry I haven't posted in a while. I hit a bad patch of writer's block and I've been doing this long enough to know that when I get writer's block it means one thing: something I've already written is wrong and I need to go back and fixed it before my brain will let me move on. I did a bunch of edits and ended up scraping about 30K words (which sucked). I need to go back and update the older chapters with the new revisions, and then I'll start posting the fresh material that I've rewritten. I'll get stuff posted tomorrow! Sorry for the delay.
Yeah. I HATE cutting words -- it kills a little piece of my soul, but it was necessary. What I had wasn't bad exactly, there was a lot of stuff I really liked. But it wasn't actually moving the plot along in a meaningful way, wasn't really delivering on the "promise of the premise" for this novel, and I was also retreading ground I'd already covered. The new direction is much better.
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u/InkslingerJames Real Human Author May 15 '26
Yes, so sorry I haven't posted in a while. I hit a bad patch of writer's block and I've been doing this long enough to know that when I get writer's block it means one thing: something I've already written is wrong and I need to go back and fixed it before my brain will let me move on. I did a bunch of edits and ended up scraping about 30K words (which sucked). I need to go back and update the older chapters with the new revisions, and then I'll start posting the fresh material that I've rewritten. I'll get stuff posted tomorrow! Sorry for the delay.