Well, it's been seven years. I came up with it in the late winter of 2005, sitting on my parents' dresser (why I was up there, I do not know). Back then, it was going to be a nine-book series for young adults. Epic medieval-fantasy-adventure type of thing.
So, it's gone through some pretty radical changes over the years (been condensed to a trilogy, and I took out the travel via airplane...) After a while, though, I pretty much came to a standstill. Had the first two books somewhat finished, and was 90+ pages into the third.
Then I came back and started rewriting the first book. Changed the POV. Edited a little.
Came back a few months later. Changed the POV again.
Later changed it back to the original POV. It still wasn't working, and I was driving myself crazy from converting 30+ pages of POV every few months.
Finally, a few weeks ago, I made up my mind. I did a pros/cons list and everything. Settled on first person, past tense. Changed it and continued my new draft, always waiting for some roadblock to come up and force me to change it again.
I'm 17,271 words into it, and it's never gone better. Since I've got the basic plot lined out ahead of me already, I have a hope of actually finishing it this time...It's just nice to feel like I'm not writing in circles anymore.
So...yeah.
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