Just finished up the 5th and penultimate chapter of Cupid. I love these characters and can jump back into writing them fairly easily but this chapter had new complications.

Here's the rub, I've completely reworked my writing process since the last time I worked on the book. (For HOW and WHY I changed it, see 90% of my previous blogs.) Long story short, my pacing is different, my structure is different and I do a lot more pre-scripting work.

My new method has really helped my storytelling and increased my productivity, but I didn't want a 5th chapter that looked and felt different from the previous 4. Cupid is a character-driven monster and it was plotted to allow the characters as much talking room as possible. I don't want to sacrifice that.

So, I had to figure out a way to go back to my old seat-of-the-pants plotting style without forgetting what I've learned about tightening my storytelling.

Far as I can tell, it worked. The chapter reads like the rest of the book and I managed to hit all my plot points without going over on page count (chapter 4 ended up being 30 some pages.)

More importantly, only one chapter to go and this bloated beast is DONE.

Off-Topic art break. Patric is KILLING Storm Damage. He gets better with every page: