Oh, I'm not exactly upset over this. Just figured this was interesting But yeah, I'm now getting tons of ideas for refining the first half of the book and it looks like a whole lot will change, and the premise might actually end up being interesting after all. The problem with me is that I like stories that lure you into thinking this is something much more regular, cliche even, and then bam - everything is thrown on its head later. The issue with that is that you can't exactly sell that without spoiling everything. So now I kinda still wanna do that but make the initial part actually interesting as well.
Eh, that happens too. I've axed subplots and chapters in my work as well. Sorry to hear it is getting axed, but sometimes you have to run with an idea before you can see whether it will be good or not.
So I’ve finished a longer chapter recently, which I’m proud of, but after finishing it I realized I’m like 99% gonna axe this subplot, and therefore the scene in question will be cut as well.
Yeah, that's been my issue as well. I usually restrict myself to maybe cleaning up the previous two chapter before going on, but that's largely cause I reread them to get back into the proper mindset, and instead notice most of my grammatical errors. I keep going back and forth about doing an explanation in-story about how magic works. Part of me feels it would be useful, the other part of me feels like it will kill the momentum of the novel. Still, I know how you feel about the story changing so much over time that the earlier chapters are no longer relevant and need to be fixed.
The most tempting thing for me right now is to just... go back and rewrite the whole novel because it's been going on for so long that my vision has changed like five times since the start, so draft zero is now wildly incohesive. But I know that I just need to press on and then unify stuff later instead.
Go for it if you feel it will help. I'm dancing back and forth between adding a few things to some previous chapters to help with my current one for my novel while also still writing the Story Bible for the second novel.
I think I'm gonna write another character thing
BB is pretty awesome. Honestly the game has been really interesting. In a post-apocalyptic world, it would be the delivery people who would likely see the most action.
You konw, the main reason I'm interested in Death Stranding is that there is a baby in a prominent role.
Oh Takahashi and his archetypes. Not that I can't say the same about Kojima. Death Stranding may not have much to do with MGS, but you can feel the franchise's influence everywhere. Hell, even the part of the game where Sam gets recruited to help Bridges feels like a callback to MGS1's secret briefing with Solid Snake, which itself is a homage to Escape from New York.
