For anyone who's read my novel Artificial Terror or anyone interested in reading it, I'm taking this month (February) to get back down onto the nitty gritty in order to overhaul the entire project. Last year I took the time to line edit the manuscript yet it didn't improve much. After watching a video (I'll link it in another comment), I've gained a new perspective on what I should do. First is to give it a proper outline and style sheet so I can easily create the new draft. Second, I'll be reorganizing the scenes/chapters for them to fit the new outline. Lastly, I'll focus on fleshing out the characters more due to not utilizing them to their fullest potential.
Overall, I think this outlining phase should take only this month to work on and I should be done rewriting this next draft sometime in the summer. My hopes is to push the word count back to that of a novel's.
