Finally got a moment to sit here and gather my thoughts, so here we are! First arc is done, paths are diverging, the main character is aware of grander powers at play and is no longer in the relative safety of the nest.

Meanwhile, I am eager to continue on with the story, but also aware that I have made a lot of mistakes along the way.

It is inevitable. This is my first work and it's been 7ish months of writing through, revising, dealing with life then coming back to write some more even when I had to pull out all nighters for the chapters to come out relatively when I promised they would. I am glad that I started this despite not ironing out all the details, because I might have never been started this if I wanted to already have 100% of the story mapped through without any sort of outside pressure (love you all) keeping me on track. The events of arc 1 were already fleshed out and planned, but still I came across roadblocks and patches where I found my writing unsatisfactory, so I plan to use the next two weeks to fully organize all the events of arc 2 before I start writing anything. I may also go back into arc 1 and change around some scenes that flopped because of my own execution.

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A final thing that I am planning on is dropping a few constraints that have made things a lot more difficult for me than I thought they would. Mainly, I will start writing other pov's within normal chapters and leave interludes for stuff that is sideways to the story progression and things that happen far away from the main character, rather than for any sort of pov other than the main character's.

So, yeah, that about settles it. Thank you for your support, story is coming back after this short break, look forward to some proper exploration now that momma isn't looking over her kid's shoulder!