{"id":3049,"date":"2019-09-19T00:02:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2019-09-19T00:02:29","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T07:02:29","slug":"where-im-at-on-book-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/?p=3049","title":{"rendered":"Where I’m at on Book 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I hit 25k on book 5, The Rivalry of Renegade X<\/em>! Which just also happens to be the 25% mark, assuming this book ends up being the 100k I have planned. It’ll be a bit shorter than the last few books, but all my books have been coming out a bit shorter these days, so I thought I’d roll with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I’ve already had my freak out where I get to about 1\/4 – 1\/3 of the way through the book and decide I need to delete everything and completely start over, only to realize a few days later that I’m insane and everything I had was great and exactly what it needed to be (and also hilarious), and then put everything back to normal and move on. This happens every freaking time<\/em> with Renegade X books, and I have no idea why! Sometimes at this point in the book, I really do need to reassess where it’s going moving forward, and sometimes that means going back and adding things in, but I rarely end up cutting anything, and certainly not the whole thing<\/em>. Geez. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do remember in book 2 having to rewrite that scene where Damien goes over to Sarah’s and they’re working on the personality enhancer, like, a million times. It was originally about something completely different! I’m pretty sure Riley wasn’t even there! I hadn’t figured out what the book was really about yet or, more importantly, what the characters really wanted from each other, and once I did, it all clicked into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anyway, I’m loving<\/em> working on book 5. It’s hilarious and fun and full of crazy hijinx!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After ruining the annual Tines family barbecue by retaliating against one of his stuck-up superhero cousins\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwho totally deserved it, no matter what anyone says\u00e2\u20ac\u201dDamien just wants an easy summer. One that involves him and his friends hanging out and going on the occasional superhero mission. He doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need his \u00e2\u20ac\u0153good twin\u00e2\u20ac\u009d from another dimension where he was raised by Gordon showing up and making a mess of everything, and he sure as hell doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need him living at his house, doing chores without being asked, and generally being the perfect superhero son his family\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always wanted.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And as if that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t bad enough, his good twin refuses to lie low. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s obsessed with doing good deeds and even volunteers to be his dad\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s sidekick on his lame kids show. Damien soon has his hands full just trying to stop this guy from making him look like one of the stereotypical douchey heroes he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always hated. And when his good twin starts to win over all his friends, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the last straw. Damien knows there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only room for one of him in Golden City, and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more than ready to get rid of this guy.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

But when Damien\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s attempts to send him back home backfire and an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153evil\u00e2\u20ac\u009d version of his half brother Xavier shows up\u00e2\u20ac\u201das if Xavier could get any worse\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe two Damiens will have to find a way to work together despite their differences. That is, if they want to stop Xavier\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s evil plans and make sure there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s still another dimension to go back to.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I hit 25k on book 5, The Rivalry of Renegade X! Which just also happens to be the 25% mark, assuming this book ends up being the 100k I have planned. It’ll be a bit shorter than the last few books, but all my books have been coming out a bit shorter these days, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23,52,25,40,43],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-blurb","tag-progress","tag-renegade-x","tag-the-rivalry-of-renegade-x","tag-writing"],"views":324,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3053,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/3053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chelseamcampbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}