Sup lit?

Post things.

almost started. can't decide a proper structure though.

Have a vision of where I want the story to go but I'm racking my brain trying to find the perfect opening. All of my attempts to improvise the opening have turned out weak or contrived scenes. I'm having similar trouble deciding the conditions by which the characters meet and bond. Writing is hard.

Working on my opening, have some major scenes mapped out, overall I know my plot progression I'm just fine tuning it in regards to character and theme.

My novel is in two parts and each part functions as its own self-contained narrative, although I see them as one story I noticed they both have a different take on the theme, i guess what I fear is having them feel inconsistent with each other if i try to ship them as one story together. I want the work to have a sense of thematic wholeness and doing that may require a drastic rewrite, but I'm not sure if I want to chase that line just yet, maybe make the distinction between them more clear

Are you near to having it beta-read?

Not really, just many chapters and snippets that I have let others read. Progress is consistent enough so I'm hoping to have that very soon, I have myself till the end of June.

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Finished book one (just under 90.000 words), started book two, then realised book one was a bit rushed so now I went back to patching it up and making it better. It's a post-apocalyptic fantasy that relies heavily on world building, so there's a lot of stuff I need to explain in more detail.
Also realised that a lot of it was written while I was in various states of drunkenness (to make up for the writer's block I often find myself having) so now sober me has to deal with that mess.

Oh well, such is life. Learn from my mistakes, kids.

What are the reactions to book one so far? Or are you still sitting on it.

Good work anons! Wish I had something I wanted to write. Keep at it