So I have been making a lot of progress on my AP3 outline. I'm above 30 pages of notes so far, which cover the first 600 pages of the original draft. I never wrote an outline that long before and AP3 will be the first book I write with a full outline to guide me. It has been very difficult, like I mentioned in my last posts. One of the most annoying things so far is needing to rearrange certain scenes to fit within my notes. Let's say I have a battle in Augsburg, Germany in the original draft, but in the new draft, I need to have that battle take place in Stuttgart, Germany and add in a different context. Or the Augsburg battle takes place on Chapter 27, but now I need to move it to Chapter 38. This is the type of complexity I've been dealing with lately.
To be honest, AP4 was easier to deal with because it was the first draft and there wasn't all these plotlines and rules I had to account for. Rewriting AP3 completely from scratch is a no-go, otherwise it would mess up AP4 too much. Perhaps, you can now see why it is taking me a long time to put out new AP books.