Are we really at 20% of this revision already? Whew, the fourth draft of a years-long endeavor just whizzes by! Next Scene on Deck: Oh, cupcake. We’re gonna be spending a lot of time together. For future reference, getting a handle on a main character only during the second revision pass is ungood. Like and
This revision update gets us past the end of Act 1, which is marked not by some formulaic percentage but by Heroine being forced into the thick of the quest she had previously refused twice. Act 2 starts at that point of no return, where it’s physically impossible to walk back her decision. Like it
Revision III resumes in Heroine’s POV. Pretty sure this is her first scene of this pass in which I added more words than I deducted. The deductions were mostly the author’s compulsion to overexplain infrastructure. If I provide one solid reason why she doesn’t go one way, I don’t have to provide six reasons to