I know I'm a year late, and no one will read this, but I'd like to record my thoughts here for posterity's sake.

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I know no one (or very few) people will read this blog post. I've got one follower, someone who goes by the handle of Normal. I'm not sure why Normal is following me. He (or she (or xe)) have 31 stories and 500 followers. I've come out with a few chapters of a weird, half-formed fanfic and a frankly mediocre entry into a writer's training ground (I've since gone back, collected the WTG prompts and written several stories, but many of them relate either to the backgrounds of characters in

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I'm finally happy with Chapter One of Progress. I've rewritten like four times in the last eight months. Wow, eight months and I've only written two chapters. Well, I've been busy, plus I'm three thousand words into chapter three. It's gonna be a long one, but I'm already happy with those three thousand words, so probably no rewrites.

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So I know what you're thinking right now: 'This guy is talking about the Mass Effect 3 endings? That was like, two years ago, nobody cares anymore'. Then again, if you thought that why read the blog post? Anyway, the point is that I care and I'm assuming no one will ever read this, so I'm going to ramble incoherently.

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So I've been thinking about my story, Progress. I've realized I'm just not happy with it. I'm not happy with the pacing, or the characterization, or the descriptions of places and events, so I'm going to, against my better judgement, start over. I'm going to write an outline. That's not to say I'm going to carefully plan out every scene in my head and refuse to deviate from that plan, but I need an outline to help control pacing. I already know the broad strokes of the story, and I've got

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