Jupiter and Within Temptation Appreciation

[gothrockrulz]

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OH. MAH. GAWD. This song has blown me away. Teru, I'm in love with your guitar solo, and ZIN, I wantz your eyelashes NOW. Hizaki, I want to steal your entire wardrobe, as always. Excuse me while I listen to this on loop forever

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[gothrockrulz]

Sometimes it's good to think of the first draft as the "crap draft" and give yourself permission to make it crappy because it's all the more rewarding when you can edit and re-shape it into a "good draft".

Yeah, crappy first draft is done. Now I'm in the third draft, and it's tough because I have a ton of sub plots and dropped plot points that I didn't explore in the first draft. LOL. I gotta remind myself to approach writing like drawing or painting--the foundation is always rough and ugly, but absolutely necessary.

The best piece of advice I can give you is to make sure, even if it is the first book of a series, that it has a clear beginning, middle, and end.

Yep, that's what I'm shooting for. I really liked my formatting for the first book and the second book, but since the first book ended up being HUGE, I need to split it in two. And I'm not sure exactly how I want to plot the journeys for my characters. When I had a two-book format, the first book was about eliminating all the enemies except one, and the second book was about finding that last, most powerful enemy. Now I have to decide if I want to devote two books to that last enemy, or just one.