“It’s your world, not mine.”

Tighter
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Chapter 2 @  538

I hit 50.1K tonight, which means I'm 33% of goal and given myself a 30 buffer in case I fall off a cliff. Crazy!

 I've taken a week long break from Stuck, mainly to give me some distance so when I go back in, I might have some objectivity. In the mean time though, words must be had so I've been noodling on the two next Sub!John stories. One is about 3 chapters and over 8K and the other is much smaller, a 4ish K 2-shot that I hope to finish soon. It's only two chapters for fuck's sake but I've got 5 versions of it already and keep trashing them... I need to step back from all of these and do some mapping because I'm basically writing blind.

So this week I'm doing the plan/edit thing for v3 of Stuck. Here's the game plan.

• Draft new outline with updated plot/motivation


• Flag outline inconsistencies on text


• rewrite to updated outline


• read through and general story flow

This is a bit more than I usually do in a single draft pass and I might wait on #4, but then I'll run the risk of what happened last time, plowing through while not looking back and ending up with a disappointing final read through. This way I'm at least making sure I leave the chapter in a half-decent state before I move on.

I'm looking forward to digging back in again. Hoping to make some headway on this giant mess of a thing.