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I overused 'before' terribly. I meant it as a way to move from one action to another: "He did x before moving to y," or, "he said x before his face crumpled." But it doesn't relate the two things; it's like using 'then' all the time. Instead of writing things as cause and effect, I was trying to...

I really enjoy thinking about and writing my story. If I had 0 readers, I'd probably still work on it. Sometimes I'm tired and don't feel like putting a chapter out, but I wonder if someone is waiting to see what happens next, and I remember the stories I'm caught up on and how badly I want to...

Frustration. I found myself getting annoyed at how characters in some of my favorite stories behaved. Then I thought about how I wanted these characters to behave, and that became an MC.

Thanks, everyone. I feel a lot better about the story with it broken/cleaned up.

I have 17K word chapters and 2K word chapters, and the formatting needs a general overhaul from pasting things in hastily. Is it worth reposting/going through and editing everything into smaller pieces? Or should I just commit to smaller/cleaner chunks as I post new chapters? Background: I woke...