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SSamir Haddad1 wk ago2 replies1

not gonna lie, i nearly did it tonight. priya's idea about the menu has been in my head all week and on my break i opened a new doc and started chapter one again with the menu in it from the start.

wrote 400 words. they were pretty good. then i closed it. then i opened it again. it's still open on my phone now

i'm on 18,500 on the actual book. i don't know what to do

2 replies

  1. TTomasz Wierzbicki1 wk ago

    Close it, Samir. You have 18,500 words. Do not throw them away for 400.

  2. PPriya Natarajan1 wk ago

    Sorry, this is partly my fault for going on about the menu idea.

    Could you just write it down as a note for the second draft and keep going with the book you've got?

  3. SSamir Haddad1 wk ago

    can everyone just stop planning my book for like a week

  4. PPriya Natarajan1 wk ago

    Fair enough. Sorry.

  5. SSamir Haddad1 wk ago

    @inkandmonsoon sorry about last night, i was tired and that was out of order. you were only trying to help.

    also i worked something out on my break. there's already a handwritten menu on the wall in the restaurant in chapter one, from 1979. so the djinn can already be tied to it, i just haven't revealed it yet. so i don't need to restart at all.

    deleted the new doc. 450 words on the real one tonight

  6. PPriya Natarajan1 wk ago

    No need to apologise, I was overdoing it. And that's a much better way to do it than mine. Really glad you're not restarting.

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