The Problem:

While planning out the rewrite for TDG, I came to a realisation of two main problems with my current strategy.

1. Because of how long the planning is taking for TDG, neverming what I'll need to do for WKAU, it will take a long time for either of those rewrites to bear sufficient fruit for anything to be released. As the entire point of starting up these rewrites was to try and actually get stuff out there again, you can understand why this bothers me.

2. A side effect I noticed recently is that the longer I take planning, the more daunting the prospect of writing becomes, in turn hampering my planning motivation. Added to this is the fact that it's been a while since I've properly written anything, so I find myself nervous about the quality my writing may or may not be of.

Both these Problems are potential motivation-killers that could undo much of my progress in recovery, so I've been trying to come up with a workaround. And I believe I have it.

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The Solution:

Given that the core of this issue is that I've not written anything in a while, the obvious solution is that I simply need to write. However I don't want to just start on the rewrites because of the aforementioned issues of it still being in the planning stages to avoid some previous pitfalls and wanting the rewrites to be of good writing quality.

Enter a idea I had a few days ago. A story idea that popped into my head, and that I couldn't help but explore a little, for a meta-narrative told from the perspective of the story written as a consequence of that narrative. The more I looked into it, the more I found myself enjoying it, and the more I wanted to write it.

So that's what I'm going to be doing. While I continue to work on the plans for the rewrites, I'll use this new story as a way of stretching my writing muscles again and getting back into the swing of things, as well as to improve my writing ability some more so I can feel more confident about starting up said rewrites.

I'll post a link in the Post-chapter A/N when the first chapter's up, but stay tuned for "The Epic Tale by Charlie Wilson and Oliver Maxwell", coming sometime in the next few weeks.