Regolith Part 8: Editing and What I've Learned Already

Last Wednesday I read through the first six chapters of Regolith and... Ohhhhh boy. Yeah, there are quite a few things that I changed later in the story and didn't realize were still in there (like references to mana, which I moved away from using, or the mayor having children and contradicting that something he says).

So far I'm glad to report that most of the problems stem from plot errors and contrasts of my ideas rather than grammar errors. That makes me happy, happy, happy. However, the title of this post is "What I've Learned Already" so I'll get down to that.

Part of the problem is that I didn't update my chapter notes. I noted in a previous blog post that I took way better notes this time - which I did - but I never updated them as I went along writing. It was somewhere around the middle of the book where I read an article that proved to me that the concept of mana (a mystical life-giving, blood-like substance that allows the use of magic) was flimsy at best and my idea of magic needed better drawbacks. So I fleshed out more ideas and even added a sort of cycle to the life and death of magic.

Another part of the problem is that I'm usually thinking and working on what I'm doing in my head in places where I don't have paper. It would help if I did, but sometimes I don't.

So far I've learned to be more confident in what I write and to embrace every word unless its wildly outlandish. I feel more confident in Regolith and the Storyteller War as a whole with this one nearing the end.

I also have a cemented release date:
September 30th, 2015. It is the last Wednesday in September. I feel like that gives me a great enough time to work everything out and set the book up for pre-orders and what not.

And this is your friendly neighborhood author, signing out! Stay tuned right here for more moon collapsing goodness!