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We are almost at the chapter edits!!!

These are going to be LONG and DETAILED so they’ll take more time to finish than my other notes but I don’t have much else to work on aside from plot by this point so I’ll be able to give them my full attention!

I’m really excited for these, I have some big ideas for how I’ll be changing the story and I can’t wait to share them!

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*Note: The following links below take you to the beginning of the particular chapter chosen within the book. Book 1 ————————————————————————

Tumblr won’t let me add the screenshot so here’s the link to this page. Also this is a fan blog so it’s not for certain these arc names are canon, I don’t know where this person got them.

Honestly, when it comes to chapter names, “Across the Ocean of Leaves” is fucking poetic. I regret not being able to recycle that in some reference in this version (it wouldn’t make much sense in this case because the part it references is brief, at the very end of chapter 1).

The rest are kinda eh. I guess they work fine, they just seem really literal and not that interesting for it. If I can’t find a quirky or poetic way to reference the main subject of a chapter, I usually pick a title that references a specific detail in it to throw the reader off until it becomes clear.

I like messing with readers in general :)

The names of the other arcs are maddeningly vague. The last two give almost no information, and the second is little better. I guess it means that it’s about Addison and other members of his class?

Tbh I somehow assumed that Cameron was supposed to be the main character for the whole book. But maybe not. Which is crazy. According to this, her part as the main character is already over, and she didn’t get any development?

Chicas Locitas is the most intriguing to me. WHAT is that about? I can’t even guess.

(I guess I can’t for the others, either, but for different reasons)

None of this is relevant, I realize now, it’s just interesting to me.

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A bit about my process…

Putting myself in the shoes of another artist is something I’ve done before, but this in particular is a challenge. Mostly because it’s hard to know just how intricately planned this story was before it was put on indefinite hiatus.

There were supposed to be ten books, but as I’ve mentioned once, I’ve wrote a series of five before, and I didn’t fully plan out the fifth book until I was nearly done with the fourth. I had some vague ideas for what I wanted, but the specifics changed drastically as I progressed.

During the actual writing process, details come to light that you don’t consider when writing an outline, and sometimes you’re forced to make changes to how you planned things out in order for the story to be the best it can be.

So yes, I know it’s a bad idea to get too detailed with outlines too far in the future. But did Vivziepop know that?

Above is a character who was supposed to have a single arc of her own. I’m guessing there were a lot of characters like this, who weren’t supposed to be a large part of the story but get their own character arcs where there was focus on them.

There are literally hundreds of background characters, though, and it’s hard to say how many of them were supposed to have their own arcs, or how well-planned all these individual stories may have been, or how they were organized to contribute to the overarching story.

And even if elaborate plans did exist, like I talked about before, who’s to say if they would have turned out as intended in the end?

Then there’s this:

I’d like to draw your attention to the blacked-out parts. Apparently they’re covering spoilers for the plot (I’d sure love to see under them now, though) so there was also planning for ZP that wasn’t being shown to the audience, even outside of the comic itself.

But it’s hard to know how thought-out everything is from this perspective! In other posts, I’ve pointed out plenty of examples of plot points or world building details that stop making sense when you think them through.

As a writer myself, I think it’s even okay to make a story out of plot points that you just think look cool or interesting. It can be done well! But it takes a lot of work to make sure they make sense, and contribute to the larger goals of the story.

It’s things like this that make this project frustrating — I wish I could know how the future of ZP was outlined, because this was meant to be a long, complex story once upon a time, but since I can’t, I just have to accept that while I’m trying to write this with the spirit and intention of the canon, I can’t completely see the entirety of what that canon is.

I have to keep fighting that personal disappointment with myself throughout this process.

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Hiatus is over!!! 🥳

I’m ready to continue working on this project now. I have more time to focus on it, and I’ll be posting more of my notes within the next couple days.

Thanks for your patience, I’m happy to be back! 😁

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I think I need a hiatus for a while, my mental health and workload haven’t been great lately. Will get back to this as soon as I can :(

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I’ve just been leaving this open while working on this project, tbh

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Interestingly, once I finished coming up with the new districts, I realized that each district corresponds fairly well to one of the seven deadly sins, who also used to be characters in ZP. And by “corresponds” I mean that they each have the opportunity to wreak maximum havoc in each district. Probably won’t come up in the future, but walk with me.

Animal district — Gluttony

Not difficult reasoning. It’s the city’s food supply, she could easily hoard it and starve everyone if she got control there.

Governance district — Wrath

For basically the same reasons that Wrath leading the court in Hell doesn’t look like the best idea.

E! District — Lust

The kind of fame that someone gets as an entertainer is a form of selling away one’s privacy, Lust would just take that to the extreme.

Advancement district — Pride

I think it’s kind of a trope that pride is the main flaw that destroys evil academics.

Commerce district — Greed

This one should need no explanation.

Industrial district — Sloth

Would basically shut the whole place down and make sure nothing got done.

Cultural district — Envy

If Envy had any kind of control over this district, they’d kick everyone else out and keep the cultural treasures of the city for themselves.

Basically, it’s a good thing that Safe Haven keeps out powerful demons, because they’re the perfect seven-person team to destroy the place completely, devastate their respective regions or turn the city against itself.

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