I know what you mean XD Though by first draft I mean more like, the first draft of your entire book. That's when all the proper editing starts. And yeah, glad to hear your character is getting better with each revision! I've actually noticed my characters have benefited from the idea to make things more concise as well. But then, several other characters have suffered as a result, but I hope to develop them in later books.
Yeah, except I'm not really doing a first draft at this point. It's more like a fourth draft... On the brightside, I think this version has my favorite incarnation of the main heroine since she's more of a character now and not a plot device/reader surrogate.
Funny how you should mention the World of Ruin, because two thirds of my trilogy are basically this XD Yeah, originally my thing was also supposed to be one book, then two, and now it's three, which I really think works best because at least there's clear thematic progression from one book to the next. And don't worry about the pacing. The first draft is reportedly always bad because you just have to vomit everything out. After that you fix all that. And I, as your beta, will be there to help with that
Lol, I see you have a motive. Well since the last third of the story is not exactly set in stone, I have a feeling it will actually be a bit shorter as I had originally meant to make it longer but since I've been putting so much focus on the world history and stuff (which is better represented in the first two thirds) I may end up keeping the end section simple. To give you an idea, the last third is a bit of a World of Ruin scenario but would have explored what happened and the new society that emerged from it. Though, if I did break up the novel into two, I could effectively hit that word count goal so maybe that will work out for me. I'm still a bit worried about the pacing being a bit slow.
It may work better in the end, you know? Knowing that I have this word limit actually made me think of creative ways to compress my story that really I think worked out for the best as now the pacing that I have in my head just seems way more, uh... better. I was gonna use a better adjective But yeah, you should join. Then, when we end up posting our novel chapters, we can just critique each other and gain karma that way
Lol, yeah, I've been trying to avoid that myself now. Happy to hear you found a cool group to work with. on scribes. I'm still on the fence about joining but know I probably should. I don't really have a target word count at the moment, but I would conservatively guess it will be close to 150,000 words at the moment. I'm actually close to 50,000 words currently and I've only covered what amounted to the first 50 pages of the old draft, so I've essentially doubled the length of the text. I'm actually at the sad realization that I may have to break up my novel into two books which I was hoping to avoid.
I've actually joined a sci-fi/fantasy group on scrib. They seem like a cool bunch.
While Ibe just come up with an idea that will change the plot of the first book substantially, and though it works much better, it's still a really sudden and unexpected change By the way, what's your target word count? I heard your debut manuscript should be 80-90k words maximum. Idk why. Maybe they just don't want to risk it with new writers?
Some details will change, the third act is basically just footnotes at this point and not quite as well established as I would like so the build up to the ending will be an interesting surprise. The rest needs to stay abit more grounded barring a plot hole that needs to be fixed or two...
A futile effort XD Nah, I mean, you can probably generally keep it as it is, but I think some details may still change
