February 9, 2025
NOTE: This is a LONG chapter (10,000 words, double the length of my minimum), so I hope you guys enjoy it!
As I mentioned in the comments on the previous Ch 71, this is technically the beginning of Book 6, and so instead of doing a 'full recap' I am sort of spreading that information out over the course of a few chapters.
For example, what did Allister do with the chunk of black metal given to him by Sylvia that might be related to the Shackle Guardian? Well, he briefly mentions it in this chapter, rather than 'that event' being a part of its own chapter.
ALSO, I have some info at the end about where I might have otherwise 'split this chapter up' to make this one a bit shorter and instead have the last few thousand words be the beginning of the next chapter (it's just an FYI kind of thing about that type of decision I make for chapter endings).
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FEEDBACK: Thoughts?
Please comment!
(~dramatic voice~: Guys/gals, I live for your comments! And hardly anyone has been commenting on the last few chapters! I need your feedback, even if it's just to say, 'I liked it.' And if your feedback is 'this is boring,' then let me know that too! Thanks! Anyway...)
1. What did you think about the scene involving Mel, Wren, and Hailey? I feel like there was a lot of information divulged that you could comment on.
2. What do you think about Krystal so far? (Like her? Dislike her? Thoughts about her behavior?)
3. How do you feel about how things are progressing so far with the Sera situation? (For example, thoughts on Wren's assessment, or the MC's thoughts, or even how that relates to stuff Garrick said, etc.)
CHAPTER LENGTH INFO: So, just to give you guys an idea of how I tend to split up chapters, a really good spot to divide this chapter 'naturally' would have been at the whole ‘Hopefully it would all work out. Hopefully,’ which was also 7100 words at that point. It would have been a full chapter.
Instead, I wrote an additional 2800 words and stopped it at him arriving where Sera is, which made this chapter basically 10k words.
Either spot would have been a bit of a cliffhanger, and if I had stopped at ‘hopefully’ (7k words), then that would have made the following 2800 words the first part of the next chapter, which would have resulted in the whole ‘seeing Sera’ part as not being a cliffhanger. So yeah, just a random FYI on how I do that.
The main reason why I continued this chapter an additional 2800 words is so that this chapter is mostly about Krystal, allowing the next chapter to be mostly about Sera herself.
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