Yes, I was. My laptop was in the shop because I chipped the corner, and by the time I got it back I had kinda lost the will to write. Trying to get that back because it's so much of what I do, hope to get the second arc of NI started over here very soon and keep the updates regular. Also probably should actually, y'know, pick up where I actually left off instead of George Lucasing the old stuff.
I guess it's not Special Editioning after all, it's refining what's written. When you write something over the course of a few years, you lose track of where you were, what you had planned, and sometimes you come up with something new or better, and can't redact what you wrote. That's how things go with In-Progress writing, I guess. But I'm not adding extra guff and buffing how many kills Ash gets in Team Fortress 2 for no sake, I'm cutting things that don't mesh with the direction I take things now and refining awkward sentences and the like. It's not extra gubbins all about, it's specifically things that improve the quality and consistency of writing, which is one of the traits of a good writer. Consistency. If Greg acts like a bad guy for the first nine chapters and then suddenly shifts to become an upstanding man with no bad streak, readers are more led on to believe that this is Greg II, a different character than the first Greg, or that you're just inept. So when you rewrite Greg is a Real Cool Dude, you need to make sure that Greg stays consistent throughout. Since his nice traits are more recent, it'd be safe to assume you need to either cut those out, or make a conscious effort to make Greg learn how to be a better person. That's kinda what the Penana edition of NI is about. I'm not happy with the first few arcs, so I'm getting to write them around where I am 36k words deep into the story, make sure it's more cohesive.
Hopefully my laptop doesn't break again.
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