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Message: <blockquote data-quote="orchid blossom" data-source="post: 1671100" data-attributes="member: 12815">I agree with you on everything.  Honestly, I couldn't get an idea for the longest time.  Then, I finally finished the story about 3 in the afternoon on Wednesday.  I took a break till 5 and then went to edit and revise.  I took out an entire storyline and changed it in those last four hours.  I think I rewrote a third to a half of the story right there.  There was a fiance, and Carowyn had to fight the bear, and it just read terribly flat.  Then I realized that the only reason the fiance was there at all was to get saved from the bear, so he got chucked.I then had to work the bear in again.  So the fact that it's nest was so close was one of those "it just got by me" moments.  That poor bear was so thrown in, I think I'm going to get smacked on that one.  lolI also wanted Jacob to show more crazy man stuff, but I wasn't satisfied with how it was working.  I've never been insane, nor have I met an insane (clinically anyway) person, so I was also a bit afraid of trying to write crazy and getting it wrong.  Plus, he couldn't be too far gone or they couldn't trust him.Anyway, I agree it's a bit too straightforward.  I'll admit right now that I probably will never come back to this story, too many stressful vibes for me.  But I think in the end I got something out of writing it.Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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