Not much to fix here except once again I being way too many sentences with "I did this". I spruced up some descriptions and completely erased entire sentences that were just...kind of awkward. It's nice rereading everything. I knew how it all looked in my head but it doesn't always come across that way, but this is how we learn isn't it? The size of this chapter kept me from editing it for quite some time. So I took tonight and made a thousand words worth of progress here and there and took

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Just finished my edits for chapter 5. Added in an extra scene and changed around some wording. I'm starting to notice fewer and fewer mistakes. This chapter didn't have as many past-tense mistakes as usual.

I told myself I'd do three chapters tonight, but the very next chapter was a longer one. For the most part, there was just some clarification and formatting issues. As usual, I found any reason I could to cut down on the "I did this" and "I did that"s.

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Last two days my insomnia has been ruining everything. I'll get tired, sleep for a rough four hours, with waking up every 30 minutes for no reason. Then I'll need to get up and do something because life doesn't stop for me, then not sleep until next time while being drained all day. I'm trying to work my second delivery job, but I've seen so tired that driving is risky.

Me before work "I'm gonna work on the next chapter of KOTD!"
Me during work *Edits an old chapter or starts to*

Next day
Me before work "I'm gonna edit an old chapter!"
Me at work *Works on next chapter

Next next day
Me before work "I'm just gonna do some writing!"
Me at work *Cleans up notes*

MAKE UP YOUR MIND BRAIN!

It's done! Finally! I really pushed my writing limits on this chapter! I was describing things with words that are...normally purely visual and auditory. It's new ground for me and I hope it flows well. I'm absolutely exhausted and disappointed it took me so long to get it out. That being said, it was fun and I hope you all enjoy it! Thanks again for your patience! Gonna do some more editing on a few older chapters now, so it will be nice taking a small break from new content.
-DC

November, apart from thanksgiving, has been hell for me. The rommate and I got super sick for like two weeks, so the house fell into disarray. My grandpa died and we adopted a second dog. Apart from grieving, trying to do some from of housework and helping my roommate, I've had ZERO energy. Thanks for being patient!

New chapter's done. Will be posting it tomorrow around 5 as usual. Thank you all so much for your patience! After I post this, I'm gonna spend some time doing some more editing on KOTD.

Don't worry, still working on it. I'm just having issues describing the dancing. I'm waiting for a few prereaders to get back to me on whether it makes sense or not. I've never done this before and trying to explain what someone is doing without being repetitive is a nightmare. Thanks again for your patience!

There wasn't much to edit honestly. I found some better words to use and some awesomer descriptions. This is definitely a chapter that gets me pumped and I don't know why I put off editing it for so long.

Good news is I have chapter 34 done bad news is I'm still working on chapter 33. There's a lot in this chapter so I'm making sure everything is perfect, then I'll have to wait for my prereaders to give it a once over. Thanks for your patience!

I finally finished it! Thank you everyone for being so patient! The past few weeks have sucked ASS! Do me a solid and leave me some feedback on this next chapter, please and thank you?

I know I said I'd be posting one more chapter then doing massive rewrites but...

I really wanna just continue the story for a bit since you all were so patient with me. I'm already a 1000 words in on my next chapter. What is everypony's opinion so far? Are you finding the trial interesting? I wanted to take a small break from all the combat since it takes so much time to write and describe everything. Feel free to message me your predictions, but please don't post spoilers publicly.

No matter how hard I tried, this chapter just keeps coming up short. Everything I try to add, breaks the flow of the chapter. I wanted to lengthen it, but there honestly isn't a good place to do it. I'll come back to it later I guess.

Next chapter is going up as long as I don't accidentally sleep through prime time!

Didn't see much in the way of editing. This chapter still feels a tad messy for me, so maybe I'll come back to it.
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Alright, there. Spruced up some descriptions and explained some more stuff. I'm in this middle ground of wanting to explain Taraskan protocol, and not wanting to bore most of you with ideas that you won't care about.

I'm on chapter 5 currently for editing. Ugh some of these chapters are just so...sloppy. Like some sentences are bland and disorganized, others make me wonder how they got past my editing. In my defense, I was still rather new at writing.

Got a bit of work done on the next chapter and I finished editing chapters two and three!

This dialogue was irritating because there's a ton of dialogue that has to happen at this time. I tried to break it up with a few brief moments of interactions between characters and backstory, but it still feels dull to me. This is also one of those ties where I wanted to hint at something, while secretly planning something else. There's still that worry of it coming across as bad writing, but owell.

AAAGGGHHH! I've never tried to describe people doing choreographed dances before. Describing the beat of a drum and fire twirling, I just...uuuggghhh. I already wrote everything in the chapter that isn't dance/music related and it feels like I just have this massive hurdle.