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@hope-mcclellan Yay! So glad that helped!

Never fear the reworking process (too much). Don’t know if I ever told you, but my WIP used to be a completely different story. The premise itself actually changed. It started (at its basic level, when I was eleven or so) as a story about a girl finding out she’s part of the royal family and running with her cousin to escape their evil uncle who usurped the throne. They end up in hiding in the northern mountainous region of the country until a ton of things broke loose up there. I ended up setting the story aside for a while, then did a lot of daydreaming over long period of time that resulted in me completely scrapping the first half of the story along with the original premise and completely revamping the second half. The characters were TOTALLY different, too. Grace had a different last name and was nothing like the benevolent logical mastermind she kind of is now. Dari used to be David and was more like Grace is now than the sometimes overly-pacifistic guy he currently is. Tai Jion used to be (wait for it) Jess Byrd and basically the only thing the same between the two versions is the fact that they both like dogs. And Kiet wasn’t a super major character then, and now he’s huge.

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So anyway. Yours will likely not change as much as mine did (I probably can’t over-emphasize how much mine’s changed.). However, all that to say, I like my new version MUCH better! So as Andrew Peterson once said (approximately,) “Hold on tight to the reins and let go.” 😉

(And good luck! It’s tons of craziness and tons of fun. You should have seen the wild outbursts of story-breakthrough-joy my family has had to put up with. XP)