Hey, hey, hey, everyone! Isabelle Knight here again with an awesome (hopefully) writing update!!!!!! These few days, I’ve been working really hard on writing and plots and characters and such… It’s kinda exhausting (when isn’t it?). I’m still not sure exactly how I’m going to figure everything out, especially since everything really needs to tie into the series, but at the same time, I don’t wanna make it messy.
I’ll figure it out… Right? RIGHT?! (don’t mind me, just Isabelle in SLIGHT panicking mode). I’m currently working on the fourth draft of my WIP which is honestly… scary. I’ve never had to do a fourth draft before, but this story is really so much more complex, and I’m still figuring out how to understand it. Hence the fourth draft. Well, third COMPLETED draft. Yep, I started a second draft. 2,000 words in I dropped it and started aaaaallllll over.
I’m currently 20K in with the fourth draft, and I’m really really REALLY hoping that this direction will work and I won’t have to do another rewrite. Then it’s a break and then… back to revising (just a lil rewriting and making stuff sound better). Honestly, for the fourth draft, it is feeling a little bit like a rewrite. The scenes are gonna be different, and I’m probably going to throw a lot of scenes out the window. But the concept and the worldbuilding is going to be same, just in a (hopefully) less draggy way.
Yeah, I’ve been struggling with not making my story drag which is surprisingly hard in this story. I’m still utterly lost, though. The only reason I’ve made it this far is that I’ve been stealing a LOT from Keeper of the Lost Cities (sorry, Shannon Messenger!). But if I wasn’t stealing from KOTLC I’d be totally lost.
Oh, and while writing, I’m also on a reading spree! Not sure if that was the right word for it but… (shrugs). My TBR is absolutely piling up right now. I also plan to re-read Stellarlune (thank you, Santa, for that perfect Christmas present – a book!) while waiting for book ten and waiting till the day I convince my parents to let me get 9.5. I’ve also been really busy doing a beta read for another writer.
But yeah! That’s what I’ve been up to! And I’ve also been admiring the print copies of Enchantria. Teehee. XDDDD But I mean, they’re beautiful! And book one’s paperback is coming on December 31, so don’t forget to check that out!!!
So, that wraps this up! Thank you guys so much for coming and I shall see you again in the next post!!!
Isabelle
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