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    So.

    I, uh, haven't been doing a lot of writing lately.

    I'm not 100% sure why.  Or rather I'm not sure which factor is the primary one.

    Part of it is because I'm still working on a game jam entry.  (The jam normally would have ended on the 1st, but it was extended for reasons that it's probably better not to go into.)  Technically, the game ought to already be up, since I considered it to be all but "finished" like two weeks ago, but the artist who agreed to create a unique background and some other art for me has had a lot on their plate and still has only gotten roughs done.  So I keep going in and fiddling with what I've got. 😅 In some ways it's a waste of time to keep iterating on it like that, but on the other hand it means I'm really pulling out all the stops I can in regards to little visual effects and stuff.

    But I haven't been doing much with the writing, since I've considered the script more or less finished for quite a while now.  I had to do some edits thanks to one of my two sensitivity readers getting back to me and recommending some improvements, but that's been quite a while now.

    I think the most writing I've done all month was probably when someone on a writing discord server posted a link to this blog post with the most ultimate "character questionnaire" pretty much ever.  I was actually going to fill it out on a blog post for one of the characters I've been writing about, but thought the better of it when I reached his answer to "What's the most evil thing you've ever done?" because I do not want someone seeing his answer to that question out of context and thinking I had done that!  Because, yeah, that was a very evil thing he had done.  (Even though he's usually a very good person.  It's just that he went a wee bit over the edge after suffering a particularly brutal tragedy...)

    That's sort of off topic, though.

    The main thing I wanted to talk about, in terms of my "not getting much writing done lately" issue is the rewrite I have been bogged down in for what feels roughly like forever.  The draft I'm trying to revise is really, really awful.  And a lot of the problems are structurally baked in, so rewriting is a little like banging my head against a brick wall.  Thus I have been doing almost everything else I can think of except working on that rewrite.

    I know at this point a lot of people would probably advise me to just not bother; drop the project.  But it's book four out of seven (and yes, I've written first drafts for the whole series), and I've already released books one through three on AO3 and itch.io, so it would feel a bit like breaking a promise if I just stopped.  Besides, I'm eager to get to the later books, especially book six, which is when they go to Sparta and meet Helen (and I feel like I did some moderately unique things with her!), plus they also go into the underworld and meet Hades, albeit briefly, and it's so important to get more versions of Hades in the public sphere that aren't mutilating him into a "villain."  (There is very little that ticks me off harder about modern mangling of Greek mythology than people who stupidly conflate Hades with the devil.)

    So.  Yeah.

    Anyone else struggling to get through a hard rewrite?  How do you handle it?