So, just finished chapter 18....at 340 pages. Getting a bit nervous on my page count now, didn't think it would get this high, let alone go over it.
I've been told not to worry about it, but I can't help it. It's one of those things that I want to be able to share with others, but know that many get intimidated by since it comes across as being too long. Put online it might not be so bad as there will be no physical book thickness to see, but I'm still nervous. Even the thought of it being pre-editing isn't very comforting.

I hadn't thought the original story arc for Faline's side would be long enough to take up the whole book, so I had started adding in more elements that would pick up after its climax came to an end. Well, turns out I was wrong, it was plenty long enough, and those added bits paved the way for storyline continuance in Book 4. Fun part will be figuring the time gap between the two.

Three days pass between the end of Book 1 and the beginning of Book 2, where as several months pass between the ending of Book 2 and the beginning of Book 3. The way Book 3 ends, I don't think much more then a few months will be able to pass, but that seems to be going too slow in my head. Slow, yet any faster would be too fast. X_x

Faline is the younger sister, the older one is going to have a name change. Glad I decided on it before anything had been sent in. This is why it's taking me so long to get anything published; just in case I need to make changes like this. Kinda hard to make changes and alterations in something that's already been put into 'print'.

I think for Book 4 I'll get the bones of it out first, some kind of timeline done out, then go back to Book 1 and go through everything again to make the needed changes. From there I'll get a rough draft printed as a backup, then get it edited by others. While Book 1 is being worked through, I can go through Book 2 and basically repeat the process.

Printer is gonna just loooove me...