Weekly Update: 20/09/24 (Patreon)
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Word Count: +2,781
It's been a slow and at times painful process, but I'm easing back into the writing routine. I'm hitting (occasionally surpassing) the 500/day word minimum with greater ease once again, and I've shifted from the "this is all shit" stage back to the "actually, maybe this isn't so bad after all" stage.
Currently, I'm methodically rewriting what I wrote over August, namely most of chapter 5. This new version of Julia's story feels as though it's coming along much more naturally, filling in some backstory gaps, namely Julia's past as well as her first encounter with David. Hopefully, this deepens the sense of her pain and betrayal and renders the extremity of her revenge against our protagonist more believable.
The genre is replete with nasty women enacting horrific acts against hapless men, generally "just because" or out of some unexplained, innate cruelty. As the primary source of femdom retribution against David, I'm hoping her actions and motives come off for readers as--well, if not entirely rational, at least credible, by the conclusion of her story.
Julia's story's rewrite has just reached the point of her entry into David's narrative (finding him drunk in the bathroom stall at Noir) and I'm looking forward to rewriting the next part, picking up with the night at Icarus and what follows with Tom.
The Patreon will resume in ten days, on October 1st. I'm looking forward to sharing this stuff with you!