Anyway, in the last few months (!!) since I updated (if you could even call that last one an update), I have written two full drafts, and am currently halfway through another. The first of the three will likely never see the light of day. The other two will eventually appear under a pen name (which has not been finalized, so that's why I'm being intentionally vague). I've been using slightly different techniques with all of these drafts. The reason why I'm pretty sure I messed up the first of the three was because I was trying to force it to match story beats, and it just was not working. At all. I got so focused on it matching precisely that the actual story itself started to suffer. Some people can use a beat structure - I appear to not be one of them. I ended up halting that draft at about 40k. The second one was basically pantsed, but it needed a fair amount of editing to expand it. It still needs a bit more editing, which means that it'll delay its releas