On the other hand

Recently I have blogged a lot about the new direction I allowed my writing process to go in, which was mainly to be looser on the plot outlines I had written and just let the story evolve and write itself, which it always does anyway. I still feel this is a very superior way for organicness and overall good story-telling.

However, last night, I did not have a firm enough hand while keeping the important plot points in place, and the laxness caused a mix-up, a flopping in the order of how the plot played out in one chapter. This simple lack of oversight caused the chapter to ruin its climax and, actually, a key point for all of book one and even the series as a whole.

The night I had written the block of text that included that in it, which was about 2,500 words, I realized the error as I was going to bed and that I could not allow it to remain that way. I was, very luckily, able to avoid a complete re-write of the last 1/3 of those 2,500 words. A few quick edits and I was able to add in front what would have ended up following the important point had I continued on. This saved the chapter and many other things. So, I will be watching a little more carefully because I don't want to get into a spot where I write like 4,000 words in a sitting and then have to rewrite the whole jazz due to some error like that.