Hello lovelies! I’ve come to an exciting (and slightly scary) stage in the writing of The Powder Trail.
As my few but much-appreciated readers know, the story was mostly complete before I started posting it on Wattpad. I wrote everything but the last few chapters between 2013 and 2019, stopped for a few years, and then started posting it on Wattpad in 2021 as an attempt to rekindle my interest in the story.
Now, after three years and roughly 600,000 words, I have reached the point where I stopped writing in 2019, and will be writing the ending from scratch! It’s going to be challenging, since I’m pretty out of practice, having only been editing and writing the odd gap-filler scene for the past three years. But I’ve already written three totally new chapters, ready to post!
I’m telling myself that an out-of-practice ending is better than the story having no ending at all. And nothing is ideal in the world of writing (particularly the world of my writing, where I have to fight self-doubt and despair from my unhelpful brain every damn day!)
So that’s it. You’ll have to see if you can spot the difference between the old chapters and the new (and be patient with my typos and my rustiness!) I’m excited to have reached this stage in the story at last, and I have Wattpad (or, more accurately, the lovely people I’ve met on Wattpad) to thank for encouraging me to get this far!
