/lit/ - Literature

>preparing the next draft of my book again
>got two storylines threading through each other
>things are happening too fast; a man decides to kill a major character at the start of one chapter and is arrested for his attempt by the end of the same chapter, for example
>some chapters just feel directionless and meandering; same character, in jail, preaches to the guards and later has a fight with the bishop about religion (which IS setting something up, but the whole religious speech just reads like saccharine tripe)
>if i just cut out the back-and-forth i'd have two distinct storylines, half the words, and if i got rid of one of them i'd probably have a more focused story
VANITY OF VANITIES, MEANINGLESS, EVERYTHING IS MEANINGLESS
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