And here, at last, we come to the end of Supercell's second book. I'm very happy with the end result, but goodness gracious it took so much longer than it reasonably should have. I don't want to let this happen again, which is why I'm taking a focused break here like I've been talking about for the past couple of months. Going into book 2 I neglected to really sit down and write out the whole thing like I did for the first book, so I ended up having to improvise a bunch of stuff in real time as it came up. An obvious example that comes to mind is that in my planning stage, the villains relied on a lot more ignorance from Kraon's team to get anything done, but as I went into individual scenes and explored their investigation, they ended up discovering a lot more than I thought they might. So now I have to figure out what both teams are gonna be doing in book 3 because Kraon is a lot more prepared than I originally envisioned, and Kraon being prepared is like... if you gave Kevin McCallister a month's heads up before breaking into his house. So I gotta really clean up the timeline and properly integrate Zaegon and Fangs into the plot, as well as wrangle a bunch of other new details and stuff into a clearly cohesive plot before jumping into the story because otherwise it WILL spin off the rails and I don't want my story to go to shit like a third season Netflix show that really should've ended on season 1 lol.
I do have other mini projects I'll be tackling while I do my writing marathon, so fear not, the intermission will still be fun! At the moment I'm just trying to let my to-do list actually run out before I pick up anything new because I'm easily prone to overloading with projects at any given time. I'm learning to be responsible and tone down the workaholism to the best of my ability. For now,
Enjoy!