I'm going through what I think is my fifth major revision for chapters 0-6. Right now I'm on chapter 5 and I'm lovin it. I haven't changed anything with my prologue since the first big revision, where I gutted the entire thing... but everything else has had a major face lift. One of my SCs, Kinue Noretti, is completely gone. My sister suggested I just kill him off, that way I wouldn't have to re-write so much. I asked, "but how would I do it?" "A bus" she suggested. Then I got a little off track thinking how comical a big yellow school bus, full of children, coming out of nowhere and running down Kinue. My world is anything but modern, they don't have technology like that yet! I just keep hearing grade school kids singing "The wheels on the bus go-" before my MC and the other SCs start shouting "HOLY MOTHER OF - WHAT IS THAT?!" ahaha...
*Ahem* so... Kinue is being completely written out, and so the other SCs are forced to pick up the slack and take on the roles that he had played. The whole story really flows a lot better now, though, so I'm glad for it. There was too much competition for attention before with five SCs.
In chapter 5 a lot is happening. They're traveling through unfamiliar ground, a monster attacks them, and they meet someone new. Also, this is where we catch up with what my villains have been up to. I have two main villains at this point, Haivera and Daign. The two serve very different gods so naturally they have no love for each other. I haven't yet written the scene for Haivera, but I'll be getting to it today; I'm excited. After Chapter 4, you don't really hear from the villains much after that - which I'm definitely going to remedy. Haivera is a very snooty and calculating type of person. She never acts without thinking through the possible outcomes first. Daign on the other hand is very rough and maybe a little crazy. All that's left for me to go over in this chapter is the last bit that's in my MC's POV, (Elune), and to write Haivera's new scene. Then it's on to chapter 6, dun dun dunnnnn.....
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