I have a very loose definition of “outlined”: All the chapters have titles and the major milestones are listed.
I may need to add “this book is a giant info dump on how magic works” to the Forward. That’s how the outline reads. I’ll need to add personality as I show, not tell – but it is magic school. Schools have lots of telling. Maybe she’ll read a lot. It’s also a novella, not a novel, so it will be short.
I think she’s going to have sex. Three years is a long time to be alone while finishing puberty. It’s penciled in at the end of chapter 23. I’m not sure I want to go there, though. On the other paw, she’s going to come out of the dungeon as the most powerful person on the planet. She’d probably be more confident if she were not a virgin. On the third paw, an old gay man writing about the emotional issues of a teenaged girl losing her virginity is unlikely to go well. On the fourth paw, she has no one to confide in, so there will be no monologues, although a soliloquy would work as she cries herself to sleep or romps joyfully about the tower, ideally the latter but probably both.
It occurs to me that Amazon may consider the text sharing a problem with KU. It’s the same text and I’m asking to get paid twice for people reading it – even if they skip over the chapters. That’s not my intent, but I will be sure to read the Terms of Service very closely when the time comes.
Rejected image: I’m not sure it is rejected. I could live with that.
