Another roadblock · 4:34pm Sep 16th, 2022
So... I decided to go back to my sequel and continue the story. I wrote a good two chapters, taking a radical turn in the plot only to notice that now I'd have to skip like 8 months forward in the middle of the story without making it awkward or super long. And not only that, but after a huge cut like that, another big twist would take a place and the story would be over shortly after that. How in the world am I going to pull that off? I mean, during those 8 months would happen a LOT. And I can't make the story so long I'd try to cover those months separately. It would be too shattered.
The problem is that I kinda like the direction I took the story to... But I don't think it would be possible to pull it off in any sensible way. That leaves me pretty much only one choice. Going back two whole chapters and deleting them. Starting all over again from the same spot I was stuck at for months myself. And if I hate something it's losing the progress I have made. Like playing a game for hours only to have a power cut and realizing you didn't save even once.
I guess I have no choice but to abandon this new plot line and try something else. I mean, I'd probably have to cut a few months at some point ANYWAY, but that much all at once? With everything that was happening in the store at that time? I don't think that's possible. But what else could I write? What direction to take from there? I'm so stuck. 
