Are you ever writing a book and when you make it to a certain point, you're like "OMG, this is amazing"?
That's what I feel like right now.
See, Pedestal Of Kings was a nice idea at first, but now that I have eleven published chapters and a couple unpublished chapters that I've written in advance, it feels so much... healthier, I suppose.
Now that I know where the plot's going and I'm far enough ahead writing-wise, I feel so accomplished, even though POK is not a complete work yet.
It probably also helps that my only active readers are the ones reading POK, but whatever.
So now that I have an end in sight, and I know what needs to happen, the plot is easier to develop, thus making each individual chapter more fun and enjoyable to write.
Another reason I've been feeling accomplished lately is because I've finished writing The Jeweler & The Jailer. I finished it way back in September, but haven't updated it much since just because I was firmly focused on my three other books at the time: POK, Assassins Of Joy, and Truth and Justice. Now that I've started updating again it makes it seem, again, healthier.
The reason, if you're wondering, that I switched my slots is because I was not motivated at all to write AOJ or TaJ. Obviously I told you all this at the time and put it in my bio, but I thought I'd go into detail while I'm here.
You see, I kept POK in a slot because it was right on the verge of being one of those healthy books, and I was talking to someone about it. Although they had no suggestions, just explaining everything out loud made it easier to figure out where it was going.
TaJ came out because I was working on the next chapter, on the Friday it was set to come out, and it was so cringe-y. It was no more than 60 words, had no purpose in the plot, and had a nice title and opening just to rub in my failure. Although I have a twenty-point bullet list in a part called "plot", I just could not bring myself to write it. So that's why TaJ was paused.
Now, AOJ, that's another story (haha, get it?). Again, I have a twenty-point bullet list in a part called "plot" to assist me in writing, and I would have continued, were it not for the next chapter. Ailie, the main character, was about to discover something she had almost discovered a few chapters previously. I just couldn't bring it upon her to know something so key, and so fragile at this point in time. Maybe she needs more development, maybe I need to move this bullet down the list, maybe I should just blow up the world and call it done. The first, maybe; the second, again, maybe; but the third? That would be far too easy. As a writer I feel that I should challenge myself, and when I hit that high on POK, I needed to challenge myself. And even if it weren't easy, I refuse to throw away that plot, I refuse to kill Ailie, and I refuse to get rid of Quain when maybe he's still out there.
So there you have it. My rant/advice is over now. Return to your lives.
Have a nice day, life, whatever you wanna call it.
Sincerely,
BlackpeltIsABoss