[Reversal of Fortune] Summer Progress Update · 5:10am Aug 12th, 2015
Hey guys, it's been a bit of a time since you've heard from me regarding the story, but I just made a very large breakthrough after many hours of writing/reconsidering the story. Check the tl;dr addition at the bottom of the post if you don't want to read the details.
If you do, let's get down to business.
The length of the story has been shortened by one chapter, to eliminate filler conversations and keep the story on point, along with giving more focus to the significant events in the plot. Plus, I found ways to push events from other chapters into ones where they would make more sense, and give a better sense of continuity.
The end result of this, as I said, is that the story will be shorter now. Chapter 6, which is currently about 85% done, will be finished within the next few days, so expect that soon, and it will amount to somewhere over 6,000 words, I think. I'm currently at 5,400 words, and I've just finished writing the main event of the chapter. God, that took forever. I'll need to review it a few times before I'm fully done with it though, just to be safe. I hope you don't decree it to be bullshit, by any standard of the word, because it wasn't an easy thing for me to write out.
Chapter 7 will be a lot shorter in comparison to the other chapters in the story, as will Chapter 8. Both, I estimate, will be somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 words, Chapter 8 being the shorter of the two. So, due to the fact that they are shorter, you should expect them sooner, since I feel like I'm just gonna snowball straight through them after posting Chapter 6.
After 7 and 8 there's just the epilogue to complete, which will be short. Probably very short. I'm not gonna limit myself with a wordcount estimation though. I can tell you, however, that the story would not be complete without it, so I'll release it with Chapter 8.
tl:dr
Chapter 6: very soon
Chapter 7: 2,000-3,000 words long
Chapter 8: slightly shorter than 7 (probably)
Chapter 7 and 8 will come quickly after 6
Epilogue will be short, and come as a package deal with Chapter 8
And that's everything. I'll be releasing one chapter sometime after the epilogue, but that'll just be Author's Notes, and completely optional. I just figure some of you might want to see some of the things that were cut from the story, and to see that original plan that I had for this, before I screwed up and pushed it off the path I had set. Plus it might give you some insight into Ryan and Christopher and the inspiration I had while making them, or maybe answer some questions that you had about the story itself.
See you at the updates!
Yaay!
Can't wait for more, good job on your writing.