To add on top, the AP3 outline is officially longer than the original draft of AP2. That is pretty insane to have an outline that long. I think my second draft of AP2 was above 260 pages, and I doubt the outline will surpass that. Despite the heavy workload, I'm glad to have made so much progress with AP3 and AP4 this year.
I'm above 130 pages for the AP3 outline and I have less than 40 pages of the original draft to go through before I can finally start the second draft. So, I wrote over 30 pages since the last update, which is the most amount of pages added to the outline in a week. However, it was very challenging because I scratched out ideas a few times. As I said before, recontextualizing the book has been a difficult process. For example, I'm at the second last battle of the book. In the original draft, the battle played out one way, but for the outline it has to play out a different way. This caused a lot of writer's block that took a lot of effort to overcome. At the very least, I'm nearing the end of the outline. Either I finish the outline this week or next week.
I'm now above 100 pages on the AP3 outline. This covers up to 1075 pages of the original draft. I'm past the Germany segment and am getting close to the final plot points of the book. It seems I keep adding 20 pages to the outline every week. Hopefully, I can finally finish the outline in the next 2 or 3 weeks. Also, it is kinda crazy that the outline is so long. This is longer than the first drafts of Nibowin: The Island of Death and AP1. The second draft for AP3 will surely be an interesting task for me.
I'm close to 80 pages on the AP3 outline. I made a lot of progress since my last update and I'm nearing the end of the Germany segment of the book. In the original draft, nearly half of the book took place in that country. A major character died in the end of the Hamburg arc, but for the outline I decided to keep them alive and bring them for Berlin, the last arc in Germany. I also chose to redo how another group of characters get introduced. I think things will get a lot easier once I get past Germany.
I have to be vague because a lot of things happen in this book. There isn't any way you would be able to predict what happens next after reading the first two AP books.
