The way I absolutely lied… that chapter did NOT get finished that night…
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My baby brother is a decade younger than me.
As I half raised him the dynamic for when he disagrees with me? Outrage. “How dare you have an independant thought?” Youre not mature enough to have the good dynamics of a parent before you have the experience of a parent, so its some of the negstives about a famiky relationship in someone who “isnt your real mom”. The negative side of having family is that you can and will fallout. So I think its perfectly normal for this guy to finally get to the point where he sees he’s enabling her and not in a way that gets him recognized, but in a way that she sees as his obligation to his older sister. So he has to decide if his support is because he agrees with her or because he wants her recognition, which he cannot get by supoorting her.
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The puzzle pieces have come together…meaning I was able to connect my rewritten version of the first three chapters to the rest of the story.
Now, the one last thing to think about is how isolated I want to make Pinti. She can still go on a revenge journey without her friends seemingly betraying her (in her eyes). That level of thing doesn’t have to happen to her.
I do want to take Valan along with her for a bit. He HATES her, so that would be interesting if they ended up working well together out in the wild.
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I haven’t written anything for Red Reign and TPE in some days.
I have another story idea that I keep to myself or show to others when the time is right.
I will write when I get my new desk.
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Solved some backstory today and got 400 something words of a new scene… tomorrow, I need work on creating other characters besides my main duo.
It’s funny. One of my favorite parts of writing is creating characters, but I’m not completely looking forward to it. I can create a character easily, but a character I’m attached to has to spring magically into my head. Characters I’m attached to, and write stories revolving around, feel real to me. The writing process is just discovering who they are, not creating them. So I could just create random characters, but then that defeats the entire fun part of writing for me. On the other hand, writing about a character I really like is emotionally harder…
Ah, tomorrow will be great 
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Working on making Kirlan the emotional support friend for Pinti and hinting that maybe he has a crush on her. Also Pinti is going back and forth with herself about the choice she made that put everyone in danger. Was it inevitable or not?
I have to next figure out how Thorn will come into this…
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The point about being a parent is a good point. Especially when someone is younger than the other. Melody is a widow and raising her daughter whereas the guy she grew up with and treats like a brother, isn’t a parent. So that could be another opportunity for conflict. Although I don’t have siblings, I have seen my cousins with their siblings and yeah, I notice they will fight, especially when it comes to the older ones that were tasked with “watching over the younger ones” so they have this mentality already of being responsible for them and/or having some authority over them. 
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Abaolutely. Its why 1st, 2nd, 3rd children have stereotypes.
Oldest ones are too rigid, quite often. This is your parent’s parenting experiment turning around and using parents examples on aiblings.
Middle is usually too old for a parent sibling and is defiant to the 1st.
Baby is spoiled but cant wscape eldest’s commands. Cue Wicked Stepmother.
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Personally, I like Abbie Emmons new vid on how to properly organize and write your novel on Google Docs.
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Oooh, don’t think I’ve seen that one. I’ll have to go check it out. ヽ(^。^)丿
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Since she uses Scrivner, it is done is slight likeness to what she uses.
I use Google Docs only.
Give it a look when you get a chance.
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Is this clear who wrote the messy writing?
A wooden sign hung from nails wedged into the rock with “The Four Paws” painted on it in thick, stiff strokes. Squished onto the sign in messy pawwriting were the words, “and one Honorary Wolf”.
“Can hardly read that. Every time,” Aln said with a teasing smile. Thorn rolled his eyes.
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It’s not clear to me, but maybe I’m just thick. To me it could’ve been written by anyone in the world. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
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Hmm, I see what you mean.
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@Akje How’s this?
Down a tunnel they went, turning corners here and there until they came to a cave in the very back, concealed behind a thick curtain. A wooden sign hung from nails wedged into the rock with “The Four Paws” painted on it in thick, stiff strokes. Squished onto the sign in messy pawwriting were the words, “and one Honorary Wolf”.
“Can hardly read that, Thorn. Every time,” Aln said with a teasing smile.
“Hardly?” Thorn rolled his eyes. “That was my best. Yours, on the other paw, is indecipherable.”
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Now I see! It was Thorn. Yes, much better! And I love the banter between them in this version. (*＾-‘) 乃
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I am going to have to jot down some things I need to add, change/redo, and scrap from Red Reign to add to the newer version.
Onward and forward.
Thanks 
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Brain: Miss Qualeshia, I have an idea~!
Me: Then tell me brain.
Brain: Why don’t you keep the recent Red Reign story, BUT for the new version do some copy and pasting by taking from the older story, along with adding or changing things from the recent/bit older one to get put in the new one? How does that sound? I mean it might take longer, but it is better than scraping the whole thing entirely. What do ya say?
Me: Hmmm…hmmm…say brain?
Brain: Yeah?
Me: YOU ARE A FLIPPING GENIUS!!!
Brain: Aww, shucks!
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That’s good you and your brain get along.
Mine’s like…
Me: Okay, so, Pinti is going to go and comfort her sister…then bam! One month later, the thing happens. Great. Moving forward.
Brain: Hold, hold on, wait. Wait. Is it really necessary to have that one scene with Kirlan? Think about it.
Me: I thought about it. I did. But I want to move on. Are we going back to that other chapter AGAIN?
Brain: Well, now or never. You will forget to fix it later. Why not fix it now? And oh, wait, I have this great idea about writing a short story from Tendri’s perspective…
Me: Stop. Fine, I’ll go fix that. Just…don’t, with new ideas.
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