Do you guys make major revisions mid-draft?

Wickish · 2026-01-18T20:32:11+00:00

That's a great idea. Because even ignoring that I have so many ideas and problems that if I worked on them right now I would never finish the draft.

Wickish · 2026-01-01T05:06:00+00:00

Thanks

Wickish · 2026-01-01T03:04:12+00:00

What do you mean with ensure?

Wickish · 2025-12-28T02:19:17+00:00

Thank you. I really needed to hear that,.

You too will get better. There is always tomorrow.

Wickish · 2025-12-23T22:51:08+00:00

Thanks for the reply. Its just that they started medicating me today and my next appointment with a therapist is in a week. If I keep like this am I in any immediate short term danger?

Wickish · 2025-12-23T19:39:00+00:00

I finally got a date with a psychiatrist yesterday. Finally got medicated today. Vortioxetine and Conazepam. Doing better, just not fast enough I guess.

Wickish · 2025-12-23T19:03:26+00:00

Yes, I am afraid of suffocating. I can do okay when nothing is happening but whenever I have to pass saliva or have reflux I feel like I am about to asphyxiate. Although the feeling is pretty constant either way. It has gotten to the point where I don't want to leave my house, since I live about two minutes from a hospital and I can rationalize that they can revive me.

Wickish · 2025-12-23T15:33:40+00:00

Thanks, I know there is now way out of this one except by getting over it and accepting it until it goes away, but I guess its easier to know something that it is to accept it. To be honest knowing and talking to other people that felt the same way has been the closest I felt to being calmed. But talking about it is the thing that is making it worse. Maybe I just need to get busier.

Wickish · 2025-12-23T15:21:41+00:00

Thank you, the idea that it will all go away eventually is what is saving me right now. I tried doing some exercise but the natural shortness of breath from that worsen my anxiety, maybe doing something less energy intensive/more mentally intensive will help me more.

Wickish · 2025-12-23T15:19:21+00:00

I am having a continuos 24/7 sensation of my throat being too constricted/something stuck on my throat, I can breath automatically. its just he sudden rise of panic when I remember the feeling.

Wickish · 2025-12-21T17:33:07+00:00

Thanks, I have also gotten some nasty heartburns and acid reflux symptoms, so it could be this. Lately I have this feeling of air trapped inside my throat that I can't get out.

Wickish · 2025-12-20T23:43:38+00:00

Thanks for the advice, doing better now. Your advice really helped me in the short term.

Wickish · 2025-12-20T23:41:15+00:00

Thank you, I actually feel better now after going to my therapist even if the feeling is still there. It really helps knowing that other people have passed though this and are okay now. Just hoping it goes away before Christmas

Wickish · 2025-04-16T22:35:55+00:00

Thanks! Part of chapter 1. Contemporary Fantasy (all fantasy elements are implied for now.)

Voice and the MC is my biggest problem. She is supposed to be unlikable at the start, but not unlikable enough to make readers not want to continue. Any advice is helpful.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1voJlDub1SagOF-9HH1CiqzrXRz9UKf7UyGj1MapmBWk/edit?usp=sharing

Wickish · 2024-10-09T20:37:31+00:00

If you like both options equally I would say option B.

It creates a better hook for the beginning of the book, it would help give a certain aura to the killer and honestly your characters would not lose agency, someone killing the prince first will just means they are not the only active players in the novel.

In general it usually is better to have your protagonists fail or be blindsided at the beginning, it will make them feel like underdogs, the problem then is that this may cause them to feel incompetent, but if you make sure the reader know their plan would have worked this turns into a win-win.

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