It's been quite some time since I last posted anything regarding this story, and for the past few months I've been hard at work mapping out the story and nailing down all its background and world building, with the help of D48, who I've been bouncing ideas off of, and who's served to give some useful feedback on my first drafts of the opening chapters. There's only so much planning you can do, though, and whilst I'll be away on a week's holiday from Saturday, I intend to start properly pushing

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Not quite the Monday update I'd planned, but better than I'd expected since it took about two days longer than I'd thought to finish the last chapter. 3,500-ish words is right about what I'd planned for this one, and writing it didn't drag a bit. Most of this was written today, and the first part yesterday, so I'm quite pleased with my progress. A nice mix of heartwarming fluff and depressing angst this time around.

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The new chapter is up, at last. Remember when I said I'd cut this chapter in half so it would be a manageable size to finish? Yeah, well it's (unless my tired mind has overlooked something) actually the longest chapter of the story. Ever. So much for short.

It is 1:50 in the morning here, so I'm off to bed now. Feel free to leave a comment, though, and I'll respond ASAIA (As Soon As I'm Awake, i.e. somewhere from today to the heat death of the universe).

Hit a snag with the editing and realised that a good quarter of the chapter (which by now is more than 5,500 words) badly needed rewriting. About half the dodgy section is rewritten already, but it'll take some more work in the morning to finish and edit. Really crushed that I couldn't make the deadline, but I'll have it done soon.

Thanks for bearing with me, and I'll upload ASAP.

Right, so the latest chapter is fully written but not edited yet. That shouldn't take long, but the chapter ended up longer than I'd planned, so it's too late tonight for me to edit it properly (editing when tired is not a good idea) and I'm going to finish it up and upload it tomorrow. After that, all things going to plan, I'll be uploading the next chapter on Monday. That might throw the update schedule off a bit since writing and editing a new chapter in three days for Thursday might be a

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So, the chapter I've been working on will be finished for an update tomorrow, which is great. The downside is that it's only half the story I wanted to tell in this update, since I had to split the chapter in two for pacing issues and to give some other plotlines a fairer time in the limelight. The second part is nowhere near as far along, having only recently been split from what I had planned an still requiring some extensive reworking to fit the revised series of events.

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I've finally gotten around to doing the edits I mentioned last post, which all apply to the last section of the chapter where Featherweight and Shutterbug are talking. I made some alterations to their dialogue, fixed a typo and removed the part about Shutterbug pecking Featherweight on the cheek. I've decided against making her the flirty type, and settled on simple confidence instead, as we don't really need such a shallow sort of not-quite-romance, especially when it comes out of nowhere.

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Work on the next chapter has been crawling along lately, largely due to me being in the middle of exam season while writing it, but as of today, I've now sat all my exams and can now devote the proper amount of time to writing.

Things should be building up a bit from next chapter, and some of you might be able to guess what Spoon's plan is. I also plan to reveal the true identity of our mystery camera-filly, and build her up more as a character rather than a plot element.

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Whilst the new version is still a little way off of being on site (I want to have a buffer of a few chapters before submitting this time, to try and avoid the ungodly waits from last time) I thought that since I'm making a good few changes from the first version to this one, you might appreciate something of a run-down of how it's going to be.

Plot:

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I haven't written much for Collapse, Collide for quite some time, until quite recently, and for that I apologise. I felt like I was just going through the motions of writing without feeling much for it, which is a bad place to be, as I know from experience. Eventually, I lost interest and nearly forgot about the story due to real life things taking over, but that period is over now. Reading back through the story today, I fell back in love with it and its characters, and have written nearly a

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