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IDFB 0a: Scrapped Concepts and Lost Bits 🗑

(FYI, this chapter is mostly possibly boring analysis and thoughts about IDFBC from me. Also, if you haven't read it, there's spoilers ahead, obviously. You have been warned.)

So. So, so, so. IDFB: Continued.

What a book, huh?

I mean, not to toot my own horn here, but I think I did a pretty good job with it. Not only that; you readers seemed to really like it, too. It has the second most views out of all my other books (probably cause it's also the second oldest lol), and it has the most votes and comments.

And yet... I personally have a love-hate relationship with it. Don't worry, it's mostly love, and "hate" is a pretty extreme word. What I mean is, despite everything I think I did right with the book, there are several major things I don't like about it and would possibly change if I could go back in time. (One would be proud.) A couple loose ends, something not being executed well... stuff like that.

So, I thought: why not do a sort of analysis on the book because why the fuck not? I'll say at least something for each "episode," explaining my thought process behind certain plot points - plus some general stuff about the book as a whole - and I even have a deleted part + a scrapped concept to talk about. If this is your kind of content, then strap yourselves in, because... er, I'm making this sound far more dramatic than it really is, aren't I?

Let's just get started. 

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Prologue

Short and sweet; a pretty good start to the book, I'd say, although I still have two little things I'm annoyed with. In the very first part where Loser started to read the story aloud from Donut's diary, and some of the Exitors started licking the jawbreaker to try and get him to stop... that didn't really go anywhere in the end. In the epilogue, when Loser freed himself, the others had already stopped licking for unstated reasons. I was going to have a short scene somewhere in the middle of the book where it flashes forward to the Exitors again, and mention how they decided it wasn't worth trying to stop him and just continued to listen to the story. But since I was never really sure until near the end where the middle of the book even was, it just didn't happen.

The other thing is a very small detail that probably none of you even remember because I'm probably overthinking this. When Ruby and Bubble were in the dead zone after dying in IDFB 1, Bubble mentioned that it "might have something to do with the HPRC, because nobody remember[ed] ever being in [there] before BFDIA 4." That tiny, insignificant detail has haunted me for a long time, because later in the book, Seekayaitch establishes that he and Emwhyaitch had made the dead zone when they created the objects in the first place, back in 2010. That was because I was originally making Evil Leafy out to be a sort of virus, jumping from Leafy to Firey to the Firey Speaker Box to the HPRC to the dead zone and eventually all the way to Bubble, based mostly on interactions.

...yeah, that doesn't sound any less confusing than it did when I was first trying to figure IDFBC out.

IDFB 2a-2c

A sort of secondary good start to the story. Overall, I really like how I wrote these three chapters; they came out much better than I expected them to at first. Originally, I was torn on whether I should reveal the humans right at the start and show the whole memory-wiping event, or if I should cut off the "episode" right at the end of 2b and leave you readers wondering what exactly happened to FreeSmart and co. until far later in the book. I'm extremely glad I went with the former for reasons I'll mention later on. Otherwise, I don't have much else to say about these chapters other than they're some of my favorites from the book.