Hayden M. P. Rusk

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Said i was done actually adding content and just would edit now but... uhhhh I lied.

Zera's Uncle.

Second draft done. Few more things to do. Movi g some chapters around and adding two more I terlude chapter to better flesh out the world and future plot points.

Word count ~187963 Page count ~ 267 pages Chapter count ~ 71 chapters Time frame ~ 2 years & 2 months

1:00am on 3/16/2024 Officially confirmed. First draft of "The Mystforgotten Chronicles" Is done.

Hard to work when he gets like this!

finished Zera's Second draft edit. now just need the second half of Malik/Ri'Anns then second draft is done!

second drafts are funny where you can just completely shift a side character to be more important and overall a fun character to right for when they were initially just a kind of speed bump issue for the MC.

Finally hit the halfway mark on edits. Reached page 152 of currently 293 page second draft. Hopefully the second half doesn't take as long to fix up. But now I rest.

Have basically finished the edits for Zera's part 1

I want to try and edit at least two chapters each writing day. Get them fixed up and have the second draft that is actually readable by the summer. Then go through it one more time and maybe have a third and final draft by this year.

Lol I probably should of done one round of edits before getting excited and saying the first draft was done. This beginning stuff is bad bad lol.

Editing isn't too bad. Re-wrote two chapters I already planned on changing. But it's really nice having a base to change rather than coming up with something completely new.

Basically the culmination of my writing today. (Maybe one day I'll get a sketch done of Zera's brother and sister)

Today marks the 2 year anniversary of me starting this, weird ambition of mine. Weiiiiiiiiird... Maybe I will get done before the third anniversary.

I took.a break and think I'm mostly unhappy with the start of the chapter. Think I'll add a new beginning of it and update it a bit.

Why can't I just write with vibes? Idk, like I need this chapter. But I felt like I wrote it wrong 😭