Not to mention the plot chasms that when you go back and edit you go HOW THE HELL DID I MISS THIS THE FIRST FIFTEEN THOUSAND TIMES XD
Or is that just me?
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RE: Just Babblin' -- You know how I get sometimes.
YES! Hahaha. I tend to write character-driven things over a plot that expands a series... if I didn't spend all these years on this, I wouldn't even have a plot LOL. Actually, I wouldn't even have a couple of my characters!! 😱
(I wrote Vengeance about fifty times, and every single time I rewrote it something new would pop into mind, or something would at last click for the future, and eeeee. These things take tiiiiime!!!)
So you have a world history outline possibly covering hundreds if not thousands of years too? 😆
(I ended up with one of those because I needed to work out why some characters were acting a certain way I didn’t understand but seemed to be cultural and now not only do I understand but there’s a lot more characters in different times that I’m going to need to revisit eventually 😵)
YES!! 😅 Vengeance is actually the result of just that! 🤣
Originally my story started at what is now going to be Book Three. Then I started thinking about the past and how things got to be the way they were, and LO! A new start to the series! Basically a novel-length prologue, haha.
The whole thing expands over a thousand years. So we have Vengeance, then a few hundred years later these other peoples who have connections to what happened in Vengeance, then a few hundred years after -that- we have what was my original story. Then it all comes to an end!
(In a fashion that would not have been possible had I not marinated in this story for twenty long years haha!)
Writers. We're all clearly insane. 🤣😆