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It took a very long time (about two months), but during Thanksgiving Break, I went on a writing spree and over the course of 3 days, managed to write 10k words to finally finish the latest chapter for my novel, which sprawled to over 18k words long. Besides university classes and midterms taking up a lot of my time, one of the reasons that this chapter took so long was that there was just so much dialogue that I needed to write, and while I have improved on writing dialogue a lot, at times, it can be a huge slog to write meaningful and interesting interactions between characters. It also didn’t help that I had expanded the number of characters significantly, so it took a lot of time to figure out what angle I wanted to approach each new character from and see how they’d fit into my story. I’d say that overall, I’m pretty happy with how the chapter turned out, and even if its a bit overlong since I wanted to advance the arcs of pretty much the entire original set of characters from book 1 along with introducing new characters, I’m just relieved that I’ve got this chapter out of the way as I approach the midpoint of the novel.
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Grats!
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So, now, I have two stories that I want to tell and only two damn stories!
Red Reign: Brotherhood of Monsters.
The House of Naivin.
If I come up with a third story idea or more, I will write it down and push it to the side.
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Still haven’t written a GD thing in almost two weeks except some light editing to Betrothed to the Gloxinias, and two small paragraphs for two new story ideas that I have no business coming up with because I already have other “new” ideas. 
I’d prefer it if these two newer ideas were web comics instead, but I don’t yet have the art skills to pull it off.
Idea 1: Supernatural romance. Woman who is someone who does odd jobs (currently looking for a “missing” person) and man who is a PI or maybe police officer of some sort… except… he’s dead. So ghost x female love interest. Thought there is a twist regarding his “ghostly” status.
Idea 2: Not fleshed out yet. Just wanted to do some kind of monster romance. Naga man + woman he rescues from desert/somewhere. Enemies to lovers. Fantasy I guess?
My holiday was a real holiday this time. Eating. Sleeping. Lots of video gaming. Even gasp, cleaning! But no writing. 
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Ty!
I wish you luck! My ideas keep pulling me down into the deep pit of things I’ll never finish.
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USA are through 
My characters are happy.
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I doubt we’ll beat Netherlands, but it’s nice to at least make it into the next round. ٩(˘◡˘)۶
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Yeah lol but you never know. Pretty much most of the times I wanted through are out anyway lol.
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crawls out of spider hole
hey heathens, hows the nanowrimo
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I won 
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congrats! 
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ty hbu?
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For the first time in a long time, my novel’s dragging its carcass across the page.
As of today, I have an official writing mentor — like an actual novelist who so kindly takes young writers under her wing. She writes YA fantasy though, which is very far from what I’m writing. I feel very privileged regardless.
Now if only I could get Hanya Yanagihara to edit the manuscript when it’s done… She keeps appearing in the acknowledgment sections of virtually every book I’ve been reading lately. She seems to be everyone and their mums’ editor for some reason lol.
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I came to a major realization the other day that the book I had written will make more sense as two books.
I’m really excited about that. It’s good news but, there’s a but.
The biggest challenge in revising it from one to two books is in the first half - I didn’t write it to count as one book and I fear that it’s missing a few elements that a complete book needs.
I’ve already begun looking at it from the story pov, do I tie up enough ends for the first book to feel satisfying? I’m about 80% sure that I do. The major storyline that gets wrapped up by then is the love story. Will they or won’t they is definitely answered by then. But several other plot threads are started and not concluded until the next book.
So right now I’m trying to figure out if it’s okay like that or if I’ll have to move things around to make the first book satisfying.
There’s a sequel too that I’ve started and which will now become book 3. Looking at the three of them together, the third one stands out a bit in that the second doesn’t leave as many plot threads open as the first one does. Again, not sure if that’s a problem. We’ll see…
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It is 11:00 PM, but I am not sleepy or rather I don’t want to sleep tonight because I still need to write/plot/plan THN.
I hope I don’t stay up too late, but I might just because I am crazy like that.
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i forgot to open ww again…
i would have to write completely undistracted from now until midnight tomorrow to even come close but i got some fun research in and i finally have a plan for this ancient af project, so that’s nice.
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How are you doing?
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This sounds like how I wrapped up my book. I closed most questions/things going on, and left one big thing unanswered that, if I ever get to write the next book, will cover that. The book that I finished, the two characters have gotten together, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t deeper levels of their relationship to explore, so there’s something to consider too. Lots of people are used to stories where two people finally get in a relationship or get married, and viola! Happy ending like Disney! But imo, the real challenges come as time, and obstacles come their way. People change over time too or realize things about themselves that maybe they didn’t realize when they got with their love interest. So it can be an interesting exploration to see how a relationship can stand the test of time or difficulties. In addition to whatever other plot things are happening. 
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