#awrenthatwrites

As for Darkness Reborn, there has been some really nice progress. 

I did very little with Titania’s first outline this week, but that was because up until that point I had completely forgot about Rhonan’s plot. Except for the very beginning, he was not in any of her story line. 

This is massively different than any of the other drafts and outlines that I have written thus far. Rhonan’s entire purpose when I created him was to be the silent protector of a clueless character so that she didn’t get into too much trouble. He was also a way for me to explain the world I had built both to her and to the readers - who were both experiencing it for the first time. He has been alive since before the Age before, and was there when the humans took over. His job was to bridge the gap in between the past and the present. 

I don’t need him to do that for me anymore. I don’t need him to really do either of those things - as could be seen by his absence from Titania’s plot line that has been developing, and by the fact that I am actually writing Gael’s story into the book.

But I put Titania’s Outline 1 on hold for a second so I could work through Rhonan’s - just to be sure. 

I spent a lot of the week mind mapping where his plot could go, what his options were, and where I could possibly have need of him. I really, really didn’t want to cut him out of the book completely. 

On Sunday I hit a breakthrough.

I’ve brainstormed nearly his entire Book 1 plot, and some of his future books’ plot as well. I haven’t written it out in Outline form yet, or broken it up into acts or anything, but I am happy about where his journey is going to take him and the way he is going to grow. Survivor’s Guilt and stepping out into being his own person has always been his character arc, but this way - this way - is so much stronger, so much better articulated, and so much more focused on him as a character. 

Rhonan feels so much more 3D now, and I am so so happy. 

If I can get enough of my school work done in a day, expect a Character Introduction of his very very soon. I’m excited to share him with you all. 

Also

I have been focusing, again, on world building and the creation “myths” of how the world began and how it is running. So while in my progress report below you see very little movement, know that a lot of my progress is in the back end of things that you don’t get to see in a progress bar because I can never know when I am finished with world building and Deep Lore. 

But yeah, I got a lot of that done this week too! (Stuff I don’t want to say in case it spoils some really cool things for you guys...)

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Titania: Outline 1 - 60% complete

Edana: Outline 1 - 0%

Gael: Outline 1 - 0%

Skai: Outline 1 - 0%

Rhonan: Outline 1 - <5% (with most of the skeleton work done and ready to be outlined - will be done soon)

Eanrin: Outline 1 - 0%

Aven: Outline 1 - 0%

The Hand: Outline 1 - 0%

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last week’s update: 04.07.2020 

Thank you all for your support and your kindness! 

And, as always, thank you so much for reading!

Talya