Why do I keep changing this even though nobody follows me? · 7:05pm Nov 28th, 2012
Once upon a time, I said that I had decided to start a story of my own... at this point, I still haven't even finished deciding on character interactions or even the outline of the first chapter. That was a little over 2 months ago. Now I can no longer complain about some of the authors that I read taking a long time for seemingly short chapters. I also wonder just how much time and thought goes into actual novels, those things are several hundred pages long, follow X different viewpoints at once, and still have to follow one single storyline the entire way through. Making everything tie together at the end is surprisingly difficult, because when you think of one idea, it deviates or detracts from some key component of the main story and you're forced to discard it, lest you go back and be forced to change your story to fit your new idea. And why would anyone want to do that?
