Where though? Do I copy and paste in hyperlink or no?
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Useful tip! When you click the reply button to someone’s post and then look at the full quote of what they said, you can see the exact coding they used in their post. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Not in hyperlink no
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Can you screenshot it or something? I can’t seem to understand. I am sorry, I am having a moment.
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Never mind, I got it! My god, I am so slow…
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Well I’m just happy you figured it out
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Thanks.
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I love your chapter titles! 
They sound cool.
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So I went back to writing a different novel that I wrote a few chapters to before abandoning it for the prequel to my completed book.
I’m a friggin’ hot mess. 
I guess writing something is better than not writing at all? I think my issue with the prequel is I feel like it’s dragging, and if it’s dragging to me, it’s probably going to feel like a drag to readers. As for editing my completed novel? Let’s pretend that doesn’t exist for now. 
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Thanks so much! 
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In terms of editing your completed novel, if you can’t edit it, it’s probably too soon. Let it sit. Unless you have a deadline! Like, I am editing my story from like 2019 now and I am enjoying the heck out of it. I forgot how much fun it was!
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I just did something completely unrelated to my WIP: finished coming up with the summary of an 8 book series that I may or may not ever write. Put all of them in my personal threads.
What was interesting is that it’s multi-POV, but characters were dying, so by the last book, it was practically a single POV book.
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@anon39043209 I heard this and thought of you
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Sorry for the late reply.
That was really good! I like it! Forgive me for saying this, but what about this made you think of me? LOL!
I do listen to some metal, but not a lot so I can’t say I am a metalhead or anything of the sort.
Thanks for the song though! 
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Mostly the sci-fi with some fantasy characteristics. I can see you writing a story where an Astronomer, a Biologist, a Captain, and a Prophet escape the apocalypse in a spaceship.
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You can? I don’t think even I can see myself write that, but it is very interesting you mentioned that. 
Wow, that is different. LOL!
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i know what you mean i can just feel myself stewing, yech.
hm, you just reminded me i live next to a fitness center. Maybe i’ll check them out 
i don’t really like traditional working out, i’m used to gymnastics where you learn a skill and move on instead of just adding more sets of said skill. But something would be better than nothing.
heyyyy i’ve been there. i think…
i know 
it’s the worst.
@Akje
incheresting. i live in a third floor apartment though, i would feel bad about making extra noise in the early morning.
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Okay, I honestly seriously don’t recommend this for everyone, especially if you’re on meds or anything, but I’m totally loaded on eggnog right now and I’ve never had a more productive day in my life. I vacuumed the house, did the laundry, refilled the bird feeders, washed the dishes, brought in the garbage cans and recycling bins from the curb, played frisbee with my mother’s dog, put some books on my Kindle and started chapter 64 of my wip. For me, that’s really productive. Btw have I mentioned that I love you all and hope you’re doing well? ( -.-)\(^◡^ ) 
애! 
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How is everyone? I haven’t been here lately and feel like an outsider.
What I’ve been up to.
The project I was working on prior, I finished the book and just after finishing, when I was only getting my feet wet with the sequel, did I realize that the first book would make more sense as two books.
And so I’ve got a trilogy!
This definitely makes me feel better for spending almost the whole year on it. I spent majority of 2022 on what’s actually two books and that’s a pretty cool accomplishment.
I started making notes on edits and revisions I was going to need to successfully split it into two but then… I don’t know if it was a burnout, it didn’t feel like a burnout. It was more that my other WIP project was on my mind and took over so I decided to leave the trilogy for later, to take a break and work on this standalone paranormal novel I never finished.
So now I’m back in the paranormal world.
I had written this one for onc 2021 initially and as soon as I had finished it, I wanted to rewrite it already because it had issues. Essentially, the direction of the story changed. The story had an identity crisis.
My first attempt at the rewrite was to treat it like a full length novel, expand the story, make it cool, etc. But then I put it away before finishing because of burnout.
After picking it up right now, I couldn’t ignore the blatant issue that I had two protagonists whose stories were too far apart from each other. I could handle the two protagonists issue but it was really difficult to make it clearer to the readers why they were reading two books at the same time.
I considered splitting it into two separate stories but didn’t know how to separate them. Because they start as two and end as one, right?
I don’t know, maybe I’m just not experienced as a writer yet to make that work.
And so last night, I was doing an experiment, and I got an idea how to fix this book. The problem is that it means another rewrite. I might be able to use some of the content but majority would have to go.
It sucks to scrap my work again. I’m tired of always falling into this trap but if the end result is a good story, then it’s worth it, right?
As to the experiment, it was a comparison exercise. And it loosened up some cogs in my head, allowing me to see a premise i haven’t considered before.
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Fair, but hanging in there.
Doing a lot of self-discovering and realizations along with plenty of phone calls and some crying.
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