The “joy” of reading things written long ago

The Rise of the Iliri series was written quite a while ago. 2013, to be exact. Books 1 – 5 took three months to fly off my fingers. When book 5 hit 250,000 words, I had to pause. Anything over 100,000 words is a pretty thick book, and it was well beyond that point. In other words, I had to rethink my entire plot, break up the book into two, and somehow make the story have an ending. (I absolutelyhate cliffhanger endings).

And so I moved on, learned some things, and wrote some other books. Tod...