Oct
17th
2020
A Little Update · 6:38pm Oct 17th, 2020
Hello!
Just a little message to say that Flurry in Time hasn't stopped! We're working flat out to get it ready for release. We've been making alterations as we've gone through the edits of earlier chapters and this had made some of the later chapters so out of place only a full rewrite could fix it. But, we're getting close to finishing this latest chapter, just gotta wait a little longer.
Thanks for your patience!
Duvet
So what you're saying is that when the new update is here, we should re-read the earlier chapters?
5380235
No, no, it's more that my old drafts I had don't quite work with the additions we've added as the story progresses. Don't worry, no rereading required!
5380238
I wouldn’t have minded if we did need to read the previous chapters again, it’d be worth it. In fact I might just reread them again anyway just because.
5380235
5380243
What ended up happening was we had the whole draft written a couple years ago and April 2020 was when we figured it was time to publish. But as we published, we made small improvements to the text in final editing. Eventually, we found some areas of the plot which needed fixing so we changed a few details to make the story more solid.
We continued publishing this way, making larger and larger changes as we went. This is why the chapters have been slowing down. Initially, it was every week. Then every two weeks. Then longer. The reason for this is because we've been doing full rewrites on every new chapter before publishing, taking the old drafts as more of a "rough guide". The biggest deviation came with the Engineering fight scene, which was entirely new text. The original draft had two smaller fights in different places of the ship. Only a handful of people have ever seen the old draft, so don't worry -- from your perspective, nothing has been changed.
Additionally, the structure of the ship has been overhauled in this process. In the original draft, there wasn't really a coherent and consistent ship layout, so the plot takes the characters from ambigious location to ambiguous location. As we have been publishing, we have been making sure everything makes perfect sense as we go. Even now, our heroes are all headed toward a situation at the very front of the ship, which is a new location called Forward Fire Control. This did not exist in the original draft and used to be Engineering.
Again, no concern for the readers since we make sure every chapter is in its final form prior to publishing. The only point in saying all this is to illustrate why publishing has slowed. It is because we are creating all new content as we go, rather than simply cleaning up old drafts.
My job currently is writing the events that take place in FFC. While I have been writing chapter 17, Duvet has been adding content beyond the scope of the old draft in what is now chapter 21. Before, the story finished rather abruptly, and we've been considering what kind of aftermath to put in that readers would really enjoy. So we've extended the finale of this story to include a few new events that we think will be very satisfying.