Updates and Lessons

Gather 'round the campfire as I tell you the story about why there was such a large delay to this update.

Simply put, I spent way too much time on an idea that went absolutely nowhere.

I spent three weeks on that chapter and only wrote about 2, 000 words of story. To put that in perspective, in the chapters I before hand I could easy slam out 2, 000 words of story in an hour and a half, edit it to 5, 000 in two more days and edit that down to 4, 000 in my lunch break. Weeks I spent on that chapter, growing angry then sad, then angry again, and seeing that it went no where, I gave up. To start another project on another site that's not MLP related. What did I find out from that project? I found out that it was fun. With the help of the joyful stupidity from said not MLP thing I realized something.

If the chapter was really worth it wouldn't it fill me with the same joy?

So I opened up a new blank document, picked up the story from a different angle and worked on regaining that same joy I had when I started Dawn of the Vanguard.

2, 000k in two hours. 3, 000k in a day of editing, 4, 000k in two days of happy editing. Thus was the birth of An Inch.

So what did I learn? If you're not happy with the results of a chapter no matter how much time you keep puttting into it; select, delete, and start again.