Hey All, I’m back. Things have been interesting, but with these chapters I’ve completed the writathon. The three chapters that have been posted are by no means edited. I don’t recommend reading them, wait for them to be edited. I’m also going to bed, like now. Explanation below.
Whats been happening
I’ve been fighting to get this chapter out for nealy a week and a half now. I began work on chapter twelve wednesday last week, making small progress over time. Unfortunately, Between RL responsibilities, Depression born Apathy, and stress from the fact that this project was actually working, getting work down was hard. That added to the fact that I learned about some new places to improve that somehow made it impossible to get into the zone really stabbed me in my writing gut.
To illustrate how off and on my work on this chapter was, below is a authors note I drafted for chapter 12’s release on Monday this week:
General note:
Sorry for the unannounced break. The problem was a mix of rl issues and an undue build of stress around this project. My plan with this project was a low-stress introduction to web noveling while off from college. This came with certain restrictions, such as a bear minimum of planning and a lack of a backlog. These were measures to ensure that the project started in the first place. Unfortunately, the aforementioned RL issues have interfered with my attempts to rectify the backlog, and an increase in planning for the future of the story didn’t help…
All this is to say, yeah, the novel went on break—it will probably do so again from time to time as I try to get a feel for this. But it is my hope that I will come back each time with fresh motivation. I will be posting chapters on Wednesday and Friday so I complete the Writathon. I have no plans for chapters next week as I’m going to try to really build a backlog as well as maybe do some editing for the pervious chapters to help round out some stylistic upgrades I’m working on.
Now, for some stuff about the actual chapter:
Played around with some Show vs. tell concepts in the first section of the chapter. It was interesting, if exhausting and slow. I normally write around 1000 words an hour, but I was writing around 750 while trying to do this, and it killed my momentum for the next section, so I had to leave to finish up later. Hopefully, I’ll get the hang of it, for now, I’m still playing with the new concept… You know I’m playing with a lot of concepts right now.
I’m still not entirely settled with how I want to use em-dashes, still poking at the ways to write present tense prose, and now I’m adding show don’t tell. And I still want to play with adverbs (though that’s gonna be editing me’s job). Not to mention my play with pacing, natural world building, character devlopment… well, I have been saying the the purpose of this novel is to learn how to write so the next one is a success… I’m just starting to realise how long that road might be.
In case you didn’t figure it out, that didn’t happen. I got stumped on how to transition to the Rabbit mission, leaving me unable to write. Ended up writing down a break down of what can happen and what that covers. Sorta flow charting what different options cover, what has already been covered in what was written, and what will need to be added to make it work. This was helpful, but still was time that could have, theoretically, been spent writing. In any case, I managed to build up arround 4 and a half thousand words before today, so I only needed to write another 5.7k today to finish… and I was only able to really start 4. Not to mention that it was pretty on and off till 12. Moral of the story, today wasn’t great.
Whats gonna happen now
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Anyway, here’s whats gonna be happening. I just published 3 chapters. They are all completely un-edited. Infact, I’m verly sure that some events will be shuffled between the chapters (some events in the start of 14 will become the end of 13). This means that I will be coming back to edit these chapters.
My current plan is to come back and edit these chapter one by one, starting with chapter 12. I will then put the edits up following this schedule:
Monday: Chapter 12 edited
Wednesday: Chapter 13 edited
Friday: Chapter 14 edited
Also, I plan to not post any chapters next week. When I update chapter 14, I will also post another update as to weather this will extend to the following week. The reasons for the is simple. I need a backlog. I really really need it. So I’m gonna make sure I build up one. If it isn’t where I want it to be by the end of next week, then another will be added. It is possible that chapter 14 will cease to exist depending on how editing goes.
With that said, that is not all I’m going to be doing. I will also be going back and editing pervious chapters to help me get a hang of some new writing techniques I’ve recently learned about. This will hopefully help me get back to having a nice flow while also producing a nicer more clean product so I need less editing.
Conclusion
This series will be going on Hiatus for 1-2 weeks to help me catch up with it and for me to practice. Confirmation of weather the hiatus will be 1 or 2 weeks will come out on Friday next week. Thank you all for coming by and reading my story and I hope you all will be back when I return.
I repeat, this story will return. It will only be on hiatus of a MAXIMUM of 2 weeks. I will be back!
Recomendations
While I’m off, I’ll recomend some good novels to read that are in similar genres to this one.
Ones you should already be reading/ read
1. Primer for the Apocalypse (ongoing): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/64503/primer-for-the-apocalypse
2. Champions of Andartha (Hiatus): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/60276/champions-of-andartha-an-elden-ring-inspired-vrmmo
3. Doom valley prep school (ongoing): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57688/doom-valley-prep-school
4. Reincarnation of Alysara (ongoing): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/42521/the-reincarnation-of-alysara-progression-litrpg
5. Terrestrial Paradise (ongoing):
Ones you might not know:
1. How to kidnap you princess (Hiatus/complete):
Honestly one of if not my favorite Gender Bender novels of all time! https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/23759/how-to-kidnap-your-princess
1. Tricked Into A NewLife, God Must Be Screwing With Me! (ongoing): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/49832/tricked-into-a-newlife-god-must-be-screwing-with
2. Reincarnated! A Tale of the Sorceress Amaya (ongoing): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/63079/reincarnated-a-tale-of-the-sorceress-amaya