《Decay and Deception》My thoughts about book 1 and the state of book 2
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Oh, Book 1, Decay and Deception. Where do I even start with this 'project'.
It all started one day when I was playing a backrooms game and hanging out with my friends in a call, I was tired of collecting 'Almond Water', I thought it was the stupidest shit I had ever heard of. I've never had it, but I bet it tastes like shit, how is that a 'healing' item. Then I thought: "hey, I could do it better."
So after a month of planning, I saw the writing competition here on this site and said "it's time to put my money where my mouth is." There were ups and downs, like me almost destroying my wrists trying to aim for double to goal. Then I almost missed few deadlines once I switched to weekly because I simply got distracted.
On the other side, I had so much fun writing this novel. It... deviated quite heavily from where I wanted it to go initially, but I am okay with it. The thing with demons was unplanned all the way until the first appearance of one. I think it was the fox demon back on floor 18. I had to re-plan the later half of the story just because I felt like writing something funny.
I spent so much time on these last 4 chapters, its insane. I know some of them are short, but 39 in particular took almost a week to write and not make full of plot holes. Everything was planned way back in May once I had to stop attempting daily posts. The only thing that changed from that point was the order of the final few floors, like I swapped 37 and 38, and was even tempted to put 38 where 39 is, but it just felt wrong, so I made it the way it is now.
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I'm going to come a bit clean on this one too, I finished writing Book 1 back in early July, well before it was even posted to Patreon. It gave me the time I needed to work on planning for Book 2, and with that, we come to the next topic that NEEDS to be discussed.
IMPORTANT:
Book 2, Rot and Redemption, deviates greatly from the theming of book 1. There will still be moments of suspense and horror, but the themes of loneliness are greatly subdued. Book 2 is me pushing out to the extreme in what I can write, I have planned for some of the most difficult for me to write topics.
Additionally, the chapters will be insanely long, some of the longest that I have seen posted to this site. Chapter 1, which I have completely finished editing, is 14K words long. Triple the length of my average chapter. Chapter 2 is still being worked on as of posting this and is already at 12K words, with a projected total of 18K-20K.
These chapters are hard to write and challenging to edit. I will NOT be splitting them into parts, I do not enjoy splitting chapters up if I can help it. In that, releases, when they resume, will be a minimum of 2 chapters a month. No less, but sometimes more. Posts will also still be at the same times as they are now when they are made.
With the knowledge that Book 2 is going to differ from Book 1 by quite a large margin, what do you think I should do regarding posts? Should I keep them in this fiction thread and use the feature to label it as a second book, or should I start a new fiction page for it? Poll below for those willing to vote in one direction or another. I am leaning towards continuing here, as I really don't want to start over from the beginning with followers. It took me quite a while to get to the amount I have now. (I am aware it is selfish, but big number make brain happy)
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