Always feel the need to defend English Rose & I just want to say I think all the subplots makes a lot more sense when recognising the fact that I didn’t intent for it to be a story read by hundreds of people.
I started this story off when I was 14 purely as a means of making somewhere for my hormonal teenager thoughts to go. Then when I was 15 I fancied another celebrity, and found a way to weave them into the story and unfortunately I tend not to have space for two men in my heart at once.
But I am back, and I’m editing. My current hyperfixation keeps fluctuating between Robert de Niro and Cillian Murphy right now, so I feel in a pretty confident state that I’m going to do a good job rounding off the love triangle - or even developing it you never know - when I’m not feeling overly attached to different members of the love triangle. But yeah, I know I posted that notice chapter and have been radio silent since then. I’m going through chapter by chapter, as some I’m merging and changing completely or adding completely new plot points to the story. Logistically, I don’t really know how to do it; I can’t just delete the first few chapters how they are now and replace them with my edits, and then leave the rest of the story unedited. What I was thinking was I could make a temporary new story, which has the edited chapters in until I have enough to put them into the main story.