*Alternate chapter titles: Respite, Recovery — Didn’t name it either because “Reprieve” sounded better at the time. In hindsight, I prefer Recovery instead.

Okay, folks, we're back with the next installment of this commentary, and for today's topic: Chapter Two(Reprieve)! …Oh boy.

To start I want to reemphasize that every chapter was supposed to be its own self-contained story wherein Gallus would spend time with and learn a life lesson from each of his friends.

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Hello, everyone! I promised I would discuss my writing process for The Bonds of Love like I did with A Day for Family and at long last, here we are.

Originally, I intended to post this discussion as an additional chapter to the story itself, so everyone who read T.B.O.L. could immediately read about its writing process after finishing it, rather than having to hunt it down in my Blog.

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Despite Google Docs going down earlier today, I was able to get two chapters done for Act Three. That's right, I said chapters. Unlike the last two times, I'm doing this act by chapters. Since it's the final act, there's not a lot of need to visit each character to tell the same part of the story. The chapters will still be off different character's point-of-views, but it'll be sequenced instead, meaning each character will pick up from the last chapter. I see at least three more chapters

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Alright, everyone! I’m finally back with an update on the “Writing of…” situation. Long story short: I intend to provide it in two formats:

1) A Google Doc. Currently, the entire thing rests within a single Doc, and as such, is darn near 1,000 pages long.

And 2) Blog Posts. Every individual chapter’s discussion will be getting its own individual BP, and in the cases where said discussion ran too long to be in one, that particular discussion will be split into multiple BPs.

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Because it comes up a lot in the writing-help rooms on Discord, here's how to easily share your writing to get feedback without having to muck about with user-specific permissions.

1. Create a Google Doc that has the writing you want critiqued in it.

2. At the top right of the document's edit screen, click the Share button:

3. Click Advanced:

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About to go to bed and I figure I'd give an update. I'm about half ways done with Harry's part in day two and I'm finally getting to some action. If you're not familiar with the Dresden Files, it's action heavy with a lot of magic slinging and fighting with supernatural beings. So far, it's been kind of minimal in the story, but as I've been saying it'll start taking off the second day in. And now it has. So far it's short and I've had to redo it once cause I didn't like how it started out the

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some ppl (they know who they are) made a whole fsdkjh MCFREAKING DOC (10 pgs) DEDICATED TO THANKING ME AND I CANNOT TAKE LIKE I'M DYING IT'S TOO MUCH I WAS NOT EXPECTING THIS IT'S NOT MY BDAY

on another note I made a response for the doc and sent it to the group the organizer made that has everyone in it

IN WHICH THINGS TURN WEIRD
This is the third in a six-part series. Here's Part 1, wherein may be found links to all other parts because I'm way too lazy to cross-link everything right now.

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So; I have my laptop back, but there is a major flaw. It seems to hate GoogleDocs.

I don't have Microsoft Word or any program that has word count and spell check on it; and using Wordpad is fine, but not as convenient, so I started writing a fanfic over on GoogleDocs to keep track of everything; and wouldn't you know, my laptop shut down randomly, like it had over heated or the battery was pulled out.

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Alternate titles: Fear, Part One, Life — Didn’t go with the first one because I was still in “Name the chapter after its central theme” mode, and Ch.8(Tension) isn’t exactly about “fear” so much as the lingering awkwardness or dare I say…? Tension between Smolder, Gallus, and Silverstream.

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Alternate Title: Identity — I’ll explain why later.

Oh, this chapter… Ch.7(Pride) had the most radically alternate version of all the chapters after Ch.4(Optimism), thanks predominantly to it suffering the most from the personality issue getting axed. I’m not entirely satisfied with what I ultimately settled on, but I still think it’s a good chapter.

Let’s get into it!

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Scene Rating Scale:

9/9: Flawless! Outstanding scene!
8/9: Great scene! Totally Rewatchable!
7/9: Pretty good. Not as perfect as I expected though.
6/9: Decent. Doesn’t ruin the movie/episode.
5/9: Mid.
4/9: Pretty bad. One of the weakest scenes of the movie/episode.

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From one of my favorite chapters to my absolute least favorite…

I’m not gonna mix words here: I hate Ch.6(Stagnation). I have no qualms admitting Ch.1(Transition) and Ch.2(Reprieve) are worse written, but this chapter in particular was the one I had the worst time actually writing, and it was for one specific reason…

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Alternate Titles: Fear, Part Two, Death —Since the last chapter wasn’t “Fear, Part One” I obviously couldn’t name this one “Part Two” but as you can tell, I did keep “Fear” as the title for thematic reasons.

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It took my entire young life to perfect a story I just posted, and it's still not good enough.

At least I don't think it is, right now.

I'll probably go back to it at some point now and again to edit it, revise it, etc.

Ah well.

Alternate title: Normalcy — Went with “Normality” since it sounded better at the time. I lean more toward Normalcy presently, but it doesn’t matter since they’re synonyms.

Ah, Ch.5(Normality), you will always stand out for being the only chapter to actually follow the original character-specific chapter plan.

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Ahh, Ch.3(Expression). Or as I like to call it: The chapter where I finally figured out what the heck I was doing.

Look, I was writing a story about Gallus receiving therapy for his trauma, his friends’ reactions to learning about his breakdown, and the blossoming romance between him and Silverstream who was going through her own breakdown, all while trying to work themes of identity, personal growth, paranoia, self-worth, family, and the classic “Coming of age” trope into the narrative.

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First of all, it is a nice day outside today. Nice sunshine, oh how I missed you. And I thought I'd give you all another review today. I'm feeling a little nice today. And because I'm feeling particularly happy today, I'm giving you guys a positive review. Lets begin!

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Alrighty, for those of you who are interested and didn't take a look at my last blog post:

If you are interested in taking place in a giant collaboration, you're in luck! All you have to do is think of a short cuddle scenario involving the least-likely, most terrible pairing you can think up, then write it up (one chapter only- as short or as long as you feel is good) and send the link in a google doc to me in a PM so I can collate them all!

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