Currently, I’m going back over the first few arcs of my ongoing story, Soon, the World Will End. While I planned to keep the story going on in a continuous narrative, the effort of writing on a daily basis has, incrementally though it may be, made me a keener writer, and I can’t help but look back on my earliest work with more scrutiny. While there are moments and interactions that I still enjoy on a reread, I find that there’s a great deal of bloat.
There are conversations and chapters that don’t feel like they go anywhere, or set up things that won’t be paid off for many chapters to come. Character arcs feel like they flounder, and mysteries and resolutions feel far too telegraphed ahead of time, ruining any sense of surprise or climax. If I’m to tell a longer, ongoing story, I need a firm foundation, and this one is cracked.
I’ve edited and redrafted the story several times already, but I need a more involved and deeper rework to tell the story I want to tell. I’ve removed the older chapters from the blog, though I may reupload them into an archive once I have the new chapters up and running. I’m going to focus on redrafting the first two arcs as a whole, and then I’ll upload them in bulk. After that, I’ll probably focus on making sure each chapter is edited multiple times and release them when I feel they’re ready, as opposed to trying to force a chapter out before I’m fully confident in it.
Soon, the World Will End 