!!!THIS SHIT CONTAINS SPOILERS!!!
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I make most of my stories up on the spot as they progress, which is called "pantsing" for those who aren't writers (flying by the seat of your pants), which means I might be writing the climax and come up with something that changes EVERYTHING. which, yes, means my sexy gay dumb ass has to go all the way back to chapter 1 and make changes to effectively implement said new idea. it's wonderful. just fucking fantastic. I love rewriting my entire story every single time I have even just one (1) new idea later in the game.
essentially, WRETCHED is a totally unedited/unrevised work in progress at the moment (for the Viral Book Call 2025 Contest) and I gotta make frequent changes to chapters I've already published. so if (😔) anyone reads it before I make those changes, the later chapters won't make sense if I decide to implement something new
to alleviate that whole kerfuffle, starting now I'm gonna (try to) keep track of all the changes I make to previously published chapters on this page :3 it'll be like patch notes or some shit, it's gonna be great
so, the changelog starts riiiiiiiiiight
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GENERAL SHIT
[TO BE IMPLEMENTED]
> UGHHHHH I gotta go back through the earlier chapters and make every pronoun referring to the Goddess capitalized
> > [no no not she/her it's She/Her, peasant.]
> include some deets about the kinda terrain/environment Crimson likes flying through the most (twists, turns, obstacles, AHEM PERHAPS LIKE ROSE VINES)
> > [more deets about her enjoyment for racing too]
> > thx for the note sarah_mark ^3^
> in CH21, add a mention of why the girlies can't go down to the Hells and ask Umbra, Lumos, Vander, or Plutoryl directly
> > [they'd have to go through Avi, access to Avi is heavily restricted (thx authoritarianism), plus just casually going to the Hells is a big ol no-no and everyone would assume they're colluding with Umbra. also idk if Lumos is even still alive rn???]
> > thx for the note darcyi <3 ^^
> MAKE HILDE A FED!!!!!
> > I figured out Hilde is essentially an in-universe federal agent and I gotta go back and stitch that into the first few volumes
> ZIP AND CRIM TALK SLANG
> > they're such hip and cool punk rock racer girls and they would absolutely talk in a way that only vaguely makes sense (but then gets explained in plaintext after)
> Make Alabaster more of a character rather than just a name, I don't think I even described her in the slightest (pretty sure I thought Alabaster was male when I first included her, but I'm switching that bc we got enough dudes in the squad lmfao)
> CH44 + CH45: Crimson needs to ask Zip to pass a message to Hilde in the Heavens, sprinkle in a few reminders that Crim is (anxiously) waiting for a response so CH50 hits harder lol
> revise earlier chapters to change the fact people thought the Solar Shield and the Sunbeam were destroyed (they're divine weapons so they cannot be) and instead they think Umbra threw them into the sea
> revise earlier chapters to include the new seven word descriptives thing I came up with, and more detail about intraspecies variation in regards to what KIND of dragon/wyvern/whatever they are
> > ex: Crimson is a raptblood white-red monochromatic axehorn dorsalblade serraspine wyvern [SEE PENNY'S GLOSSARY]
> NOBLE HOUSES: 22 of the most powerful and influential draconid families, each one named after cards within the major arcana of tarot
> > Penny is from House Luna, Zip is from House Chariot
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[IMPLEMENTED]
22 NOV 2025
> changed the ending of CH39 so that Crimson and Umbra instead move to the hot springs so Crim can explain what happened between her and Hilde BEFORE Hilde shows up
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17 NOV 2025
> added a bit to the start of CH33 mentioning how Crimson wasn't present for the second Overgrowth on Avi and is trying not to think about the deaths it caused
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15 NOV 2025
> revised CH28 so that [Crimson x Umbra ship name pending (CRUMBRA LOL OR JUST CRUMB] has Not Yet Sailed
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10 NOV 2025
> moved a section from CH16to the end of CH15 showing Crimson leaving home and parting from Zip to go to the Novum Archives
> > [zippy ilyyy 🥺 such a big fan]
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[9 NOV 2025]
> CHAPTER 1
> > changed Crimson's drink from Mai Tai to just spiked OJ [seemed a lil anachronistic...]
> > added more details about the Seraphim, how he earned his rank, and why he's important [at first he was just Some Cool Papal Allegory™ but the Plot has THICCNED and now he's a key component]
> > changed the serpent with shedding problems from "the serpent with shedding problems" to now have a name: Slippy!!! [bc obviously Crimson names all her pets, duh]
> > added some more stuff about what caused the breakup between (Crimson x Hilde ship name pending) [I must make it hurt.]
> > added something about Hilde being the only one who really knows how to take care of Crimson's pets while she's away [yes this is important]
> CHAPTER 2
> > added a blurb where Crimson frets about Slippy and whether Hilde will know to check on him or not [I could've sworn I already had something about this but I can't seem to find it??? so there it is]
> > added a little blurb where Umbra asks what color Crimson's eyes are (red, go figure) [I described everything else but forgot about the WINDOWS to the SOUL bruh]
> CHAPTER 3
> > changed chapter title from "THE LUMINOUS LIES" to "LUMINOUS LIES" [just sounds way better lol]
> CHAPTER 4
> UM, I FUCKING POSTED IT, ACTUALLY [totally forgot to do so before adding CH5 💀💀 shoutout user @darcyi for pointing that out 😭]
> CHAPTER 10
> > Crimson and Hilde FUCK [extremely unhealthy but also extremely hot]
> CHAPTER 14 ❗❗❗
> this is the point at which I restructured everything I wrote, and expanded (or rather divided) 7 chapters into 14. not much changed within them but they're split it half now :3
RESOLVED❗> I HAVE BEEN INFORMED that readers here on WN prefer smol chapters (~2k words per) and I have been writing this like a fr novel (~4k words per)... it appears I have some structural rearranging to do.....
> > [me when I: me when I realize WN has no means of rearranging chapters 👺]
> > [me whenn I'm wrong]
> > [me when I'm right???]