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Poll: Planning & End of Novel Prep

Added 2024-05-14 19:16:57 +0000 UTC

tl;dr — I'm thinking about changing staple day slots with other novels (Soul's Requiem and other novels) when I finish a volume (such as Friday release UE) at the end of a volume to plan out the next volume. Then, when another volume ends (ATM, for instance, on Thursday releases), I'd swap UE back into that slot.

It is supposed to help me better structure chapters and arcs.

Edit: Also, when I restart the next volume, I can do a recap chapter of the previous volumes to get people caught up and remember what happened.

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I've been talking with Val and a few others, and they think that taking a bit to plot out the next books while swapping up to something new might keep things fresh and prevent burnout or what happened with the first draft I did of ATM's rewrite with HAREM.

In practice, it would look like this:

I write Undying Empire on Thursday, editors go through it, and I release it on Friday. Once I finish Volume 2 of Undying Empire, I will go over getting it fully ready for Amazon and start plotting Book 3 out in a more structured way. In Undying Empire's weekly release slot, I'll put Soul's Requiem.

After A Tail's Misfortune Volume 2 finishes, I do the same but put Undying Empire in its weekly release spot.