Mind clearing? · 11:02am Sep 8th, 2020
Although it is nowhere near ready (unless a huge blast of writing fever overtakes me), I am finally making some real progress on the next chapter. It is even taking me in a direction I hadn't thought of until about an hour ago. I hope this is the solution I've been struggling for while metaphorically hitting my head against a wall day after day.
Aside from a number of external issues, including a flare up of a medical one (which has since calmed down) and some writing burnout, a large part of my struggle has been with fleshing out things with Jacob/Shield Breaker. It has taken me down a lot of dead ends, often with only a sentence or two on my best days. But this new path looks far better than all the miss-steps up until now.
Hopefully means I will get it done sooner rather than later. This has been the equal longest time I have ever struggled to get my mind into gear to write anything and I would much rather it be the last.
Still annoyed this is taking so long, but nothing new there,
Tael.
All this delay is likely to reflect in your author's note for that chapter. Something tells me you won't waive it off.
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The notes I have just run up on the progress of this chapter currently stands at just under two pages. I'm sure I am missing some things but have done my best to list it all in order, though actual dates aren't included as somethings took a long time to work through.
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In that case, I've got a better idea. Adding two pages worth of story for an author's note sounds quite excessive, but also feasible. I think the website would let you do it. I think the websight would let you put the entire story in the author's note to a story that has only one word in it if you wanted to, but there is a better way.
I suggest, if you care to (or perhaps already done it), to write out the entire story in a blog. Then, in the author's note, provide a link to that blog like >this<. Don't need to click that link. It only leads right back to this blog. I inserted it here merely as an example.
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I will think about how to present it closer to chapter publication time. I wouldn't call it a story exactly, more a running list of dot points from the major moments throughout the development. But, it would probably be better presented as a linked blog entry as you suggest simply due to the length of it. I have also done my best to not put spoilers to future story events in it, but do allude to them as their development at times has stood in the way of solving the problems of this chapter, but they have been important interruptions to improve the future chapters.