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See the intro post Progress reportYay, look at me, I’ve made it to week two :) I just have to not think about how slowly I’m writing, and everything will be fine :’) I wrote for about 15 minutes today, getting started on chapter two. I’m not actually a fan of writing with chapters, it doesn’t feel natural to me yet, but I have to practice anyway, and the breaking point did feel natural. One thing I’ve done that’s a bit different than I’ve done before is in order to get over my perfectionism with first lines, I’ve basically skipped the first line, writing [Awesome first line] and [Epic staring line] instead. This gave my brain permission to not fuss or fiddle with the start and get right to the scene. So far it’s worked great, so I might add it to my toolbox. FactoidToday’s factoid is going to be about structure rather than elements of the story. The opening chapter is all about setting up the status quo for Roselia, basically by destroying her previous status quo with the attack on…

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