Another winner of a post title. 😅
I just can't title things, evidently. Been struggling with that a lot lately, actually.
Anyway, I'm still in a phase that's heavier on editing than writing, sadly, which doesn't leave me with much to say...
...except at least to be able to crow that I have finally finished the rewrite of book four of my Greek mythology series! Well, the heavy-duty rewrite of the 2014 draft, that is. I've been working on the rewrite (more a restructuring, really) for almost a year at this point, so being done with it is exciting!
Except...
Except that as I was preparing for it, I had to reread the first three to take notes on various particulars and details...and I saw so much wrong with them. So now I'm mired in trying to fix them. About halfway through book one now.
I realize that's a potentially endless cycle of perpetual rewrites, but hopefully this time I'll actually be getting the first three books into a properly acceptable state.
Hopefully.
Or at least less cringe-inducing, anyway.
(Book one especially needed it, because for its interactive version, I used TWINE instead of Ren'py, which means that the text is smaller, and the way I messed around with various settings to increase the amount of the screen that held the text had somehow disabled the ability to go back...which is especially agonizing considering that in the interactive version of book one I had for some reason thought it would be a good idea to insert all these choices where you could see one scene or another but not both, even though the reader of the plain text version of course gets both. (Spoiler: it was not a good idea. Not at all.) So the updated interactive version is going to be in Ren'py same as the others, and it will have properly working rollback and absolutely no evil "you can only see one of the scenes ha ha ha!" choices. Also the text should be bigger, which will hopefully make it easier to read. And the glossary will be better. Also the horrifically-bad, exceedingly-boring, unnecessary backstory-dump that took up four or five massive paragraphs at the start of the prologue is now gone, and good riddance to it!)
The good thing is that you're making your stories better, and you're learning what will work better the next time you write a series. Good luck with your revisions.
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