- last post: 01.01.0001 12:00 AM PDT
I'm not necessarily taking a break everyone, just letting myself ease off from the insane writing I've been doing. This is a little known fact, so little known that, I'm actually the only one that knows about it. Ever since I posted my prologue way back on that fateful December morn, each chapter afterwards will typically have two or three different versions.
Take the last chapter for example, the one that covered the Age of Doubt. I had a second, five page chapter that I had been working on at first. Due to popular demand I originally had the Grunt Rebellion in there. I soon discovered though, that if I were to keep all the working elements of having such a huge event, as well as having every last little plot detail I needed to set up future foreshadowing and other such events, the chapter would have been somewhere around 23 pages total. Sure, sounds like a nice big, hot read, but writing it? A chapter of that size, with soooo many scenes, plot twists, characters.....ugh....I would've gone insane.
So far each chapter starting from Chapter 1 all the way to Chapter 15 have second versions, that are a few pages long. In Chapter 9's case its almost 7 pages.
Its a very refreshing way to write, having all those different ideas floating around and everything, but it is crazily time-consuming. After I did the ranting a couple posts ago, about the many other things I've been neglecting (and some of those things have been quite vocal lately about my lack of attention dedicated to them) it should be a little obvious that doing all that writing, while creatively stimulating, has oftentimes propelled me into becoming a hermit.
Soooo, despite this, don't think for a second I'm putting the fic on hiatus. I'm up to about 4 pages for Chapter 15 and I'm still going strong. This chapter will be big though, as I've said before, so it will take me a little longer than usual to get it written up.