Today on my site...

[seawasp]

 
I talk about the dangers of metawriting and how this applied to Challenges of the Deeps!

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Being Too Familiar With the Source Can Be An Issue

[tamahori]

I feel somewhat guilty for not noticing this at the time. I mean I feel like I should have, but I was entirely too caught up with 'Holy shit, he's finally cutting loose' so yeah.

Also I'm a huge Smith fan, so him pulling second stage mayhem out wasn't a big shock to me ... I was more distracted by The Monkey Mayhem, but that you really had built up so that it didn't come out of nowhere.

So yeah, I need to get better at trying to look at stuff from a more ... external perspective I guess.

I agree with Kjn, at least this was driven by external pressure and you're very aware of what went wrong.

While I know you've been doing some 'second version' releases of some books (which I have yet to read, but I have bought and downloaded to my phone) I'm guessing it wouldn't be practical if you ever get a chance to continue the series to do a director's cut of Challenges that moves the plot-items that could have been later to actually be later ... for one thing I get the impression that would mean moving the entire Molothos fight out to a different book.