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@moxie_writes lmao I changed it again. Threw a grandma into the mix for good measure then killed her off too. So now she's only been living with them for like six months :')
            
            Hahaha no it's fine. Tbh, it's gonna work better anyway I think. And shouldn't change the story too much. I only moved her in with them cos I wanted David and Wendy to have more of a presence in her life
            
            I totally neglected them as characters in the original. Like they just leave Lucy to find her own way and don't check in on her at all. Which makes no sense cos they were close friends with her parents?
            
            Ahh makes sense. Well when you post it I'll read it too!! I'm loving this one so far, get super excited when you update!!  :)
            

@moxie_writes hahah I totally get you. I have a book I’ve finished too that I wanna remake, it’s waiting in my drafts. 
            
            Hahahah oops, sorry if I made that happen but 14 sounds good ;)
            
            Switching does really help. I honestly have another book thats on the go, but I’m having a massive writers block on that. That’s when I started this one hahah

@moxie_writes aww, thanks!
            
            Lmao, same honestly. I haven't touched a werewolf book in years, but I wrote one back when I was about 14 and ended up hating it. But it got a lot of traction and a lot of people got invested in the sequel (and so did I tbh. I love the character it's based around) 
            
            So I've been writing this completely new version of book one over the past year so I can happily write the sequel without actively cringing over my 14-year-old word vomit :') I was a total novice back then haha
            
            Just a heads up, I've switched up the timeline because I didn't wanna make a massively controversial book haha
            
            Lucy is now 14 when she loses her parents (thought I'd let you know here to save you going back to chapter one lol)
            
            But yeah. Ngl, whenever I've had massive month long breaks on Knife's Edge I've been writing omega on the side (and another story I'll probs upload at some point). Switching between them helps me fight off writer's block :')

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@TinyZebraThing no it makes sense! I also have sort of a broad picture of what I want to happen, but not much in detail and I’ve also noticed that mine is longer than I expected, so I can relate hahah. I’m currently working on a romance book - i wanted to write a cringe book and commit to it, but it’s been hard to do so  but essentially it’s about Ivory who moves with her family, they have a lot of pressure on her and she’s basically the “mom” of her younger sister. Then she meets Asher (i know) and they spark an interest in each other. Basically it’s sort of good girl x bad boy 
            I’ve decided to write it finished before uploading, but I’m currently writing chapter 27 and it’s starting to become the climax so I’m excited 
            I have a clear picture of who Ivory is and everyone else except Asher. He’s so difficult 

@TinyZebraThing Aw, I'm so glad! ❤ 
            
            Tbh, Knife's Edge has been a bit of a loose plan
            
            I knew a few main plot points I wanted to put in and ordered them in a way that makes the most sense, then kind of worked back from there. It’s left a lot of wiggle room for extra subplots that I've thrown in as a spur of the moment thing 
            
            Normally, when I plan, I focus on the beginning and the end the most (I've known what I want the final chapters to look like since day one). Then, I figure out the characters based on what they want/their reasons behind acting certain ways/and what obstacles they're going to have to face/overcome in the story. Then I base my writing around that because I feel that good character design/development can really make or break a story (a mistake I've made in past stories for sure, haha). 
            
            But if you have good characters you love writing, they pretty much write the story themselves (Bailey has been driving me as insane as she does Jade, and my brain is often equally as fried as Jade's is when I'm writing -- especially these past few chapters focussing on Bailey & Jade's rocky relationship)
            
            The main issue I'm finding at the minute is that planning it this way has made the story much longer than originally intended. And reading it back, I realise there are certain things that happen earlier on in the book that seemed really significant at the time, but have later grown to be less relevant as the story developed. Due to this, I'll be going through and restructuring/condensing parts that I feel don't need to be quite so long in the final draft
            
            Sorry this has turned into such an essay, I've never explained it much before so I hope that all makes sense, haha! What stories are you working on? I'd love to give them a read :)

No, thank you! I write as well and your writing has really inspired me to challenge myself and “show not tell”. I’m curious how you plan your story, if you don’t mind me asking?