My first message is an order of business: In a previous post, I mentioned that I would update chapters 6-13 with all the new changers I made in preparation for Issue 2. I updated the pages on this website to reflect those changes. I hope that section of the reading is more enjoyable.
Now I'd like to point out an interesting concept which has a strong influence in my current system of writing. The concept I will speak of led me to making drastic changes to an older project of mine, transforming it into the Meeki & Braya story as you see it now.
Although I do not use the Snowflake method in its original form these days, I have to attribute much of my current situation to the discovery of Randy Ingermanson's idea. Before I encountered it, my approach to writing was much more chaotic. At the time I was publishing a web serial named Meeki on my main website. Sound familiar? That old story featured many similar elements to Meeki & Braya. I released twenty two 4000-word chapters before I retired the project. For some odd reason, I actually can't clearly remember how I went about planning that story, but that's not very important.
I eventually discovered the snowflake method. The idea wasn't entirely new to me, but what I saw captivated me. I knew from that moment that I had to tear down Meeki and transform it into something better by using the snowflake method. The rest is history, I think I might have made a post about this already, but I can't remember.
In addition to the snowflake, Ingermanson introduced me to a number of good books regarding editing and story telling. These are books I probably should refer to more often than I do. I'll go ahead and say it here: Every writer (fiction or otherwise) should have at least these two books: Techniques of the Selling Writer and Self-Editing for Fiction Writers. These two are the ones that really showed me how much of a newbie I was during my earlier writing years. I can't guarantee that my stories have drastically improved since then, but I do take everything much more seriously than before.