u/GelatinRasberry

Hi!

I'm currently about 70k into my (edit: unpublished) longfic, and I've come upon a sort of dilemma. I'm writing a Danganronpa rewrite, and the fic can be divided into pretty clean *parts* of ~15 chapters, each containing a murder mystery the main character needs to solve.

Right now my writing process is: I write the first draft of a part. I edit it so the murder mystery makes sense, add some description, use spellcheck and move on. This worked well for the first two parts, but now that I'm on part three I've realised the side characters aren't really doing much. At all.

On one hand I want to go back and edit the previous parts to give side characters more development. This would allow me to gain more clairity moving onto part four, five and six, and would give me less to overhaul at the end.

On the other I just want to get completely done with the first draft, not look at it for 3 months, then edit in one character at a time once I know the final shape of a story.

I'm leaning towards option one being the correct choice, but I'm not sure.

That leads to my question: to people who prewrite and revise their longfics, what does your revision process look like?

Hi! I'm looking for a murder mystery series where not only does the detective/sleuth show up to solve the crime across multiple books, but also a majority of the suspects. So say in book one you have the baker being the killer, and the police officer and the teacher are innocent, but then in book two that same teacher is the killer. Kind of similar to the structure of the video game series Danganronpa. (Where you start with a cast of 16, then one person kills another and gets found out, then some time passes and a second person gets killed by someone else)

Has a bit in common with "and there were none" by Agatha Christie, but with each murder being solved and the bad guy being caught before the start of the next one so that each case has a conclusion.

Short story collections or novellas are good too, preferably for adults.

I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but hopefully I can help someone else who was in my situation.

I used to walk a ton. 15k/day, sometimes 20, but then, due to life stuff I stopped. For the past year and a half I walked to the corner store a couple of hundred metres away and not much else. My stamina and leg strength suffered.

These past few weeks I've been getting back into it. I started the couch to 5k program, but with walking – walking faster during the running portions and slower during the walking portions, doing it every day and skipping weeks in the program when I found it too easy. Some might say I was ramping up too quickly, but everything was great for two weeks when I stumbled upon what seemed like an insurmountable hurdle:

I would walk 200 metres, then get a sudden pain in my calves that would increase the more I walked, but would be gone pretty much instantly when I stopped. Not good. I headed home early several times, because walking without causing pain was too slow for me. It stopped being fun.

I googled. People kept mentioning hydration, elecrolytes, blood clots and yes – stretching. I didn't listen, and carried on walking at a third of my regular speed until I tried doing calf stretches three days ago.

Y'all it was literally night and day. 3 minutes of stretching after warmup and when I'm done walking has allowed me to continue this hobby. I am so grateful it was just this and nothing more serious. (Fingers crossed)

I fell into the trap of thinking that I didn't need to treat walking like exercise, because I knew I could do alot of it. I *used* to do alot of it. But my body has weakened this past year and I need to get it used to regular exercise again.

Stretching is great y'all. Don't skip it.

I just discovered you can merge epubs on Calibre using a merge plug-in, making my e-reader reading way easier. No more searching for a one shot among 50 other one-shots in a poorly organised folder on my Kobo, I can just stitch them together into an anthology, create a reference document and merge it to the front, and have 100 easily searched for small fanfics in a single file.

Just wanted to share!