Talk:Other Memory/@comment-16075172-20180308210341

ok so

i realized that i wasn't satisfied with the plot and pacing of other memory. i had some good ideas that i liked, most specifically the new characters i introduced (dolce, ioanna, jack cherno, velua, maria and netta, grylos, and most importantly martin) and specific plot points that i want to keep, but just not in that original story format

for one thing, since it's been so long since i last worked on this, and i am apparently just horrible at orgnanizing my thoughts, i've forgotten a lot of what the planned chapters were supposed to be about, and thus i can't write them. I remember how i used to be before, knowing exactly what each chapter was supposed to have in it simply by name and number, but now i can barely remember about a third of them, and even less without the context of the ones i do know

i also feel like the theme and some content was just really poorly written and i didn't like it so i want to throw that out and try again

also, i'll go ahead and say this, the majority of the old version of the story was going to be chapters about the characters just putting together the pieces of an item they'd use to get into the Wonder Jungle. for real, including the chapter where one of the characters gave the information/idea to Raskova in the first place, which would've been in chapter 12 (which i'd left half-written in a google doc), to the point where the item is actually used to get the characters inside of the Wonder Jungle without a prophecy was exactly 38 chapters, according to my notes all the chapters between 12 and the final one. i'll grant past me that like, at least 10 of these chapters were flashback chapters or chapters that had nothing to do with the weapon thingy, but that's still way too much time spent on it

another thing i felt like was flawed was the inclusion of certain characters,,, specifically raskova. like she doesn't even belong there at all what even was i thinking? idk why i was so obsessed with her, so she's definitely out now

anyway, enough of me rambling about what i did bad, i'll just summarize things more quickly. basically, a lot of the ideas that were supposed to be in the original version of this are going out. but, as well as old ideas going away, new ideas are coming in. i think the final product is going to be a lot better than what the other thing would have been, and i'm fairly excited to be getting to work on it soon