update 20. (Patreon)

WHAT I DID.

i don't think i've ever worked faster in my life. it's came to the point where i became tired of writing chapter seven, so much that i binge wrote the rest of it in 1/2 days. i honestly just wanted it done. so with that said, if you already didn't see from my tumblr, the good news is that it's completely written. the bad news? i need to edit it still. we still have time to go until release but it's getting closer, i assure you.

editing is always a tedious process. with 136 pages in my word doc, it's quite a lot to go through, especially as i always do two rounds of it. the first round is usually to fix up sentences i don't like, or fill in gaps that i didn't realize i missed. the second is usually to catch grammar mistakes and change any dialogue that my brain on the first round somehow thought was good. spoiler alert, they are not. i'm currently about the page 50/60 range of my first round of edits. i'm hoping to finish both rounds this week and send it off to beta-testers by the weekend, so fingers crossed. once it's off to them, it's pretty much sit and back and relax for me, occasionally fixing up whatever errors they find.

having written this chapter for so long though, it's kind of interesting reading back what i wrote all the way in january/february. the scene with Mirai, which i was having doubts with as i wrote it, turned out really good actually. like, really good (or so my first round of edits brain is telling me). in fact, it's one of my favourite scenes in the book so far. the way she acts and her dialogue is completely different to any other character i've written, so i think it'll be a lot of fun. 

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SNEAK PEEK.

Her gaze rakes over me, eyes taking in details that I’m not even sure I myself are aware of. She looks like she’s looking through me and at me at the same time. Her eyes are a mixture of a hazy night and the midday sun—foggy yet somehow also clear.