Or spent days redoing the same part over and over until it felt good enough ;)

Author is centuries old after all ;D

That explains the tone of the writing then ;DSome chapters only start feeling right after rewriting the same scene so many times you already know every line before reading it again.How many times did this one change before you settled on it?@Lily Harmin,

@Jamiu Abdulrasheed, I'd say... 4-5 major revisions. Then grammar/vocab check. Then two minor ones (The moment you realise you say a wrong thing, or have one sentence too long.)

The worst part was (and is) to make it feel plausible - like yes, it is fiction, yes, I can do 'magical things', but I sometimes want to also convey more things underneath the raw text. Sometimes you need to give a hint what might happen in next chapter. Sometimes you experiment with narration/words - like going softer in softer chapters, or harsher, faster, deeper in other places.

This is my biggest fiction yet, I am obviously still learning, trying things. It is long, it is boring, it is repetitive - but at the end of the day - it is basically a journal, a transcript of Lily's life :)

I know many people won't like this format - I mentioned it isn't drama - it is daily life (but mostly a medium to share my thoughts, my experiences, my life) - which I hope some people could find interesting or insightful.

Hopefully You might find next chapters fun, and leave a review (I want to know people's thoughts!)