#squigglehaunt

YES, is the answer. This is weird because I plotted the whole thing out in detail before I started writing. The first part is more or less as intended, except a hell of a lot longer. The one thing that really got away from me was the first scene of Chapter…6, I think? I was writing a light-hearted dialogue the night after Dorian and Bull had been drinking, and then Dorian made a joking reference to which the only natural response seemed to be for the Bull to snipe back. I wrote the lines as they came to mind, and suddenly I was staring at two characters at each other’s throats and going “WHAT HAPPENED?”. I almost deleted it, but decided to go with it in the end.

Then I took that break in the middle to re-evaluate and changed a ton of things.

The Bull was supposed to lie to protect Dorian after he escaped, originally, but I realised partway through it didn’t fit with his character at that point in time. His team didn’t exist at all until I realised I needed them, which is annoying because in hindsight they should have been introduced in the 1st chapter - the perils of writing serially!