My book is broken • Outlining a Regency romance • Lost Vlogs Series, Ep. 5 • Meredith E. Phillips

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[00:00:00]Hey everyone, welcome back to my YouTube channel. My name's Meredithy Phillips and this is going to be episode five.

[00:00:05]Episode five of the lost vlog series. Uh we're we're working on a book over here.

[00:00:11]This is going to be book two in my two-book deal contract with my publisher, which is very exciting. The first book, A Rogue's Guide to Winning a Wife, is due out in spring of 2027.

[00:00:25]And this book is supposedly going to hit shelves in spring of 2028.

[00:00:30]That sounds like a fake thing, but it's real and I'm working on it right now.

[00:00:34]So, at the end of the last vlog, if you didn't see it, I'll link the playlist for all this below, but I had gotten to the point where I was going to start sort of my version of the official outline. I've been working on brainstorming, gathering pieces of an outline, and now we are here in the glorious scene-by-scene outline.

[00:00:55]And of course, me being me, we do in fact have a checklist. So, I started this little checklist at the beginning of March. I have 40 scenes, I think. No, more than that.

[00:01:08]45, 6, 7, somewhere in there. Uh including an epilogue. I'm kind of like stressing to get this done as quickly as possible, but also not rush and do a messy job. I told my editor I wanted to have the outline completed and send it over to her by the end of March.

[00:01:28]That is very doable, I I think. However, I also really want to be able to draft in April or at least get started like mid-April maybe, we'll see. So, basically what I have here is an opportunity to get developmental feedback at the outline stage, which will be incredibly helpful. So, I have to send her the outline. She has to have time to review it, formulate some thoughts about what she thinks about it, send me the feedback. I'm really doubting that she's going to come back to me and be like, "This is literally perfect." I'm sure she will have some amount of dev edit sort of suggestions for me. I will need time to then implement the suggestions in a way I see fit, and then I can start drafting. So, with there needs to be time here to account for all of the back and forth, right, with the outline. So, instead of having my goal for myself be give her the outline by March 31st, I changed it and I thought, "Let me see if I can get this done by the 20th." If I can send it to her on the 20th, Friday the 20th, that'll give her I she's usually pretty fast with getting stuff back to me, and I'm going to try to make sure the outline is like thorough and has details in it, but I don't need it to be like 30-some pages like I sent to my agent for Widows of Westhaven over the summer.

[00:02:51]I'm so sorry. But, if I can condense it a little bit more than that, hopefully she'll be able to get fast through it faster and get back to me faster. We'll see. I really don't know what the timeline on this is going to look like, which is kind of stressing me out, too.

[00:03:02]That's the that's the goal. I think I should be able to do that. As you can see here, I am schmooving through this.

[00:03:11]Today is March 4th. I am well ahead of where I was planning to be at this point, but I am running into a little bit of a I don't know. I don't know what's happening here. Okay. I'm working through this outline. Act one, I think went pretty well.

[00:03:28]There's one scene in act one where I feel like I need a scene between two characters where they're discussing something, but how do I make that interesting? If I have two ladies who are sitting in a drawing room being like, "Let's chat about things." That's not super compelling, especially for like pretty close to the beginning of a novel. So, I'm like, "How can I zhuzh up that scene?" So, I haven't done that one in act one. I'm about halfway through act two. This should be like super fun because this is the house party act.

[00:03:58]We're we're getting into all kinds of activities and shenanigans and tension is high, etc., etc. And I I feel something is like not working. I can tell at this stage there's something not quite right. And I think at least one of those things is this is it doesn't feel like these scenes are leading into one another. It's just sort of like there's a scene where this happens, and then there's a scene where this happens, and then there's a scene where this happens, and it's like connected cuz it's the same characters, but there's not you know, I don't have it the scenes need to go like dominoes, right? There needs to be something in this first scene that falls over and makes something happen in scene two, right?

[00:04:43]There has to be that kind of direct connection. Another way to think of it, the the other kind of like trick, I guess, that I've heard to connect scenes is use the phrase "and because of that." So, you say, "In scene one, da da da da da happens, and because of that, scene two starts and da da da da da, and because of that, scene three like" So, they're very directly linked, and I feel like I'm missing some of those links for some of these scenes.

[00:05:11]So, I'm continuing on just to kind of get the bare bones basics of what's happening in each of these scenes down on paper, on screen, whatever.

[00:05:22]Uh but I do feel like I'm going to need to go back and kind of maybe refine them a little bit, change them a little bit to make sure they're really clearly linked, cuz you don't want it to turn into just an episodic sequence of events, right? That doesn't work. So, I'm going to keep plotting along through this scene-by-scene outline. I'm going to go back and try to refine things, clarify things, make sure there's enough conflict. There's a couple of these scenes where I'm like, "This is maybe entertaining, but is there enough conflict in here?" I don't know. I'm not sure about that, either.

[00:05:57]So, we'll see. I think acts three and four will be a little more solid with like the connection between the scenes and with the conflict elements. So, I'm hoping once I get to those, I'll be like, "Okay, yeah, these are pretty good." And maybe just scene or maybe just act two is the one that needs to sort of be like worked on a little bit. I don't know. Anyway, I'm feeling very insecure about it at this point. Not that the things happening are boring. I don't feel like any of these scenes are boring necessarily. I'm just not I don't know. There's something There's something not quite right about it. So, like I said, I'm going to keep going.

[00:06:34]We're going to finish it, and then we'll go back and see if we can figure out what's not quite right. I am encouraged, though, that I'm getting through these like way faster than I have in my little plan. I'd initially put in here three scenes, do a do the scene-by-scene breakdown for three scenes per day. I'm getting through I mean, I just started this like two days ago. So, I'm getting through this way faster. I'm doing way more than three in a day. So, if I can finish sooner, I'll have more time to go back and fix stuff. After I'm done with this, after I'm done with this, I can't send this scene-by-scene breakdown to my editor. That it's it makes sense in my head, but I don't think it is easy to read for somebody else. So, I'm going to do like I did for my agent over the summer when I sent her the outline for Widows of Westhaven, I'm going to put this into like more of a prose-y format.

[00:07:26]It'll be like, "Scene one, POV this character. Here's the date it takes place on.

[00:07:33]First, this happens and they feel like this about it, and then this you know, I'll write it out like that. So, anyway, I need to have time still to do that. At the end, I have some other things I'm going to send her, too, because that's just what I like to do.

[00:07:47]Anyway, I've got a lot going on with this nasty little time crunch. We'll see how it goes. I'm hoping that by the end of this vlog, I'll have sent the outline and the materials, etc., to my editor. Maybe that this will be two vlogs worth of that, I don't know. We'll see what happens, but that is what I'm aiming for in the next [music] couple weeks. I'll be back when I'm working on something else.

[00:08:15]>> [music] [music] >> Well, hello. Welcome to Thursday. This week has really flown by, honestly, which I'm not mad about, but work is super frustrating right now.

[00:08:39]And so, I'm like kind of stressed from all that nonsense. So, what is happening? I feel like that clip from yesterday, I haven't edited it yet, but it felt really disjointed as I was filming it. So, hopefully future editing Meredith just made it like watchable.

[00:08:57]But anyway, I officially am at the midpoint in my outline. I was working this morning like you saw, and I got through the end of act two in terms of the little outlining bit.

[00:09:11]And you also may have noticed as I held up this notebook that I yes, I did in fact paint my nails again. If you remember, the last time I was really into painting my nails was back over last summer, specifically in June. What was happening in June of 2025? Oh, that's when I was getting the offers from agents for representation. I was having calls and all that. I was so stressed out and like anxious about everything. Something about doing my nails, like it's such a focused activity that it just sort of like helped me chill out a little bit.

[00:09:48]So, anyway, that's the state of affairs.

[00:09:51]I think it's the job stuff stressing me out. Our supplier is an idiot, and so that's been really fun to work on and then this outline is just like really messing with my head because as I think we've talked about in at least one or two of the previous vlogs in this series, there's just a lot of additional pressure and expectations I think for myself and for my work that I haven't had to contend with before. So at this point, I'm at the midpoint like I said in the outline.

[00:10:25]Something feels off.

[00:10:28]And I'm not I'm pretty sure there's something off in the outline.

[00:10:31]Something's wrong. It could just be me second-guessing myself and all of the additional pressure and everything like making me think something's wrong and it's actually pretty solid.

[00:10:45]I think something's wrong. I don't quite know what it is yet though. I'm going to keep going with the scene-by-scene outline filling everything out and then go back and kind of look at things as a whole. I think what might what might be wrong is so far as I've been going through these different scenes, I feel like a large amount of the true conflict is like inner conflict within the characters, which is a good thing. You certainly want your characters to have various inner turmoil and whatever, right? So that's not a bad thing, but I think I think as I'm outlining these scenes, the scene I don't know. The scenes themselves do have conflict, but I'm wondering if like the bigger conflict in the scenes is going to be the interior working of the character, which maybe points to a more like character-focused novel, which again, that's not a problem, but it's just I don't know.

[00:11:47]I don't know. So I don't know. Uh What am I even saying? I can't tell if maybe I need to go back and add more in terms of like here's what the characters are fighting with internally during the scene and that's what's going to really make it interesting as a scene, but I do feel like there's interesting stuff happening. I mean, Act 2 is the house party. We're doing fun stuff.

[00:12:12]There is funny stuff happening. There's romantic stuff happening. There's inner activity between various characters happening that I think will be fun or like rise tensions in various ways and so I don't know. I'm just I'm just having lots of is this good kind of thoughts. Someone else evaluate this for me, please. Oh my gosh. So I guess I'm going to keep going. It's only about 4:30. I should be able to get through another few scenes. I'm doing an easy dinner tonight. So I don't need much time in the kitchen to get that ready. I am encouraged by how quickly I'm going through at least this first version of the outline. That's good. Oh, and the other thing you probably saw and I forgot to mention.

[00:13:04]This feels so disjointed. I'm sorry if I'm like bouncing all over the place. I did cross out two scenes. I figured out how to retool two of the scenes in this act to cut down how many scenes total there are, which is good because like I talked about I think in the last vlog.

[00:13:21]I think there's definitely like maybe some pacing issues going on here and there's issues where like Acts 1 and 4 are kind of thin and then Acts 2 and 3 are like oh way too long for potentially. So that brings it a little closer in line with everything else. Right now, Act 1 and Act 4 have nine scenes each.

[00:13:48]Act 2 has 14 scenes and Act 3 has 12 scenes. So it's still a little lopsided, but at least getting rid of those two helped to some degree. So anyway, let me let me get started on this and see how far I can get in the next little while.

[00:14:03]>> [music] [music] [music] >> Oh boy.

[00:14:33]Oh boy. So listen, I was sitting here this morning. I got up super early by the by. My alarm goes off at 5. I woke up somewhere around 3:30, looked at my phone at almost 4 and I was just like I'm not going back to sleep. So anyway, I got up at 4 and I was sitting here trying I was struggling to get through this the beginning scenes in Act 3 doing my little breakdown situation and I was like this is so this is not it. This is just not it. There's stuff happening, but it's like there's no there's no conflict. Where's the conflict? I don't know. I don't know. It's not here.

[00:15:20]There is like internal conflict still, but I don't feel like there's enough of that to carry multiple scenes in a row before we get to like the next big conflict-y thing. That's not how books work.

[00:15:33]So I uh I had a little crisis. I was like this doesn't work. Like half of Act 3 does not work.

[00:15:43]It's like they go visit this place, they tour this place, they talk about this kind of stuff. They make plans for that. I'm like who wants to read this? I don't even want to do the little scene breakdown for this.

[00:15:55]It's boring. So >> [gasps] >> I I was like okay, let's back up a little bit to Act 2 because one of the things that can sometimes help if you get to a point in your book whether you're outlining, drafting, revising, whatever. If you get to a point where you're like this right here, something right here isn't quite working, it's not right, whatever, sometimes you can figure it out just by looking at that right where you're noticing it starting, right where you're noticing the problem starting, but sometimes you've got to go back. You've got to go earlier.

[00:16:29]Sometimes you got to go back to the beginning of the book so that things are set up differently. Sometimes you just need to backtrack like a couple scenes to reconfigure things so that that will fix what's wrong in Act 3 or wherever you are. I in my head I was getting ready for work and you know, thinking about this dang book and I thought let's back up into Act 2 because as we've said I kind of felt like there were issues in Act 2. Wasn't quite sure.

[00:16:58]Mm-mm. No, no, no, no, no.

[00:17:00]I thought of a new idea for how things could play out. So I'm going to grab my calendar actually and kind of fiddle with that. I looked at it briefly this morning and I was like I think this could work. It's a new idea for how to work something. I don't know if this will actually fix anything. It's just a different way for things to go.

[00:17:22]So let's let's [snorts] try that maybe. It would solve another smaller issue I was having. It wasn't even really an issue. Let's be honest. It was just sort of like an annoying part of the plot that I didn't love. I'm not entirely sure how this would work out either.

[00:17:45]This could also be kind of awkward, but uh I don't know. I'm going to play with this new idea. I can't tell you what it is because that would I mean, I'm into you know, the midpoint of the book into Act 3. Like this would be a kind of a I don't know. I don't know if I would say a major spoiler, but it would definitely be like a spoiler. So anyway, let me do a little bit of brainstorming.

[00:18:07]I might need to go further back into Act 2 and reconfigure some things there, but I still don't know like I feel like there's certain things that need to happen in Act 3, but they're not very interesting. Uh I don't I think they could be. I think the way I have it now, it's not interesting. It's not fun to read. It's kind of boring. I need to I just need to retool. I just need I just need to re-brainstorm some things. So that's what I'm going to do.

[00:18:38]It's Friday.

[00:18:40]We've got the whole weekend ahead of us.

[00:18:42]Yay.

[00:18:43]Got other stuff I got to get done too.

[00:18:46]Getting I'm getting busy. Let me get to work on this for a little while before it's dinner time and hopefully I'll figure out how to fix this. Okay, I I didn't lie.

[00:19:00]I did think about things for like a hot minute and then I was like never mind. I can't sit here anymore. So I'm going to unload the dishwasher.

[00:19:08]I'm going to put away the dishes that are dirty and need to go in the dishwasher and I'm going to do a little chatty chat with me, but only me to me.

[00:19:20]You can't hear or [music] you'll be spoiled. So that's what I'm doing. Hopefully you'll enjoy a little a little montage. Okay.

[00:19:29]So the problem is that there's not enough conflict in Act 2 and 3, I think.

[00:19:44]>> [music] >> I feel like all of Act 2 is It's apart.

[00:19:52]It's not. It's probably fine. Okay, the lighting is just doing what it's going to do. That didn't help at all. I don't have any ideas. I'm going to pace a little bit and talk into this. Although, [music] in the past, this has given me a lot of good ideas that have ended up not actually being what [music] I go with in the end.

[00:20:10]So, is this a good idea? Voice memos?

[00:20:13]Are we breaking up? I don't know. That's all I can think to do [music] right now.

[00:20:17]Let's pace and talk to myself. Hello, it's me. It's time for another voice memo. Yay!

[00:20:24]Okay, here's the sitch.

[00:20:27]Act one, I feel like it's pretty [music] dang solid. I don't see any major issues with act one.

[00:20:33]Act two has a lot of fun stuff [music] happening. There is conflict, but I don't feel like [music] it's enough conflict. And then by the time we get to act three, >> [music] >> we have some major issues with pacing, with lack of conflict, and then there's sort of like a lot of >> [music] >> scenes happening with no really that important going on.

[00:20:59]So, [music] I need some additional conflict for the novel.

[00:21:05]Uh [music] so so give me some conflicts.

[00:21:27]>> [music] >> The culprit.

[00:21:37]Good morning.

[00:21:39]It's Saturday. I am so tired. Uh this little dog, that one right back there, she woke up at 2:00, 2:00 in the morning, and was whining, which woke me up, obviously, and I was like, "Absolutely not. Go back to sleep." She did go back to sleep until 4:00.

[00:22:00]And then she was whining again, and I was like, "Ma'am, what are you doing?"

[00:22:04]So, at that point, I was like, "Let me get up, go take her potty." We went outside 4:00 in the morning. We went potty. She went potty. I did not. Well, I did, but in the bathroom. Anyway, then I went back to bed, and I was like, "Let's just fall asleep. I could get another like 2 hours of sleep." Not not a chance. Not a chance. I laid there for like 45 minutes, and then I just was like, "Forget it.

[00:22:29]I'm just going to get up." So, I'm miserable. It's 8:38 right now.

[00:22:35]Uh I'm just tired. I wanted to get a good night's sleep, so hopefully I would be like ready to go. Lots of ideas. I have no ideas. So, I don't know what I'm doing. I'm trying to fix act two and act three.

[00:22:51]Once I can bridge the gap between the end of act two and sort of like the 75% like, "Oh, no, plot twist, blah blah blah blah" stuff happening.

[00:23:05]I I think I'll be okay, cuz I do really like the ending. I think the ending is pretty solid. Don't just don't I know the ending is my nemesis, but I think this one is actually pretty decent. I just need to bridge that plot gap. I have I don't know. Like I'm working on character motivations. I'm going back to like when information is revealed, when information is still hidden. Sorry about the light. It is morning, so the light from the window is just doing its thing.

[00:23:37]Yeah, I don't know. So, I I got out my laptop. Did you even see that? I don't remember.

[00:23:43]This vlog is going to be kind of nuts, but anyway, I got out my laptop. I opened a new uh like sub-document in this Scrivener file, and I was like, "I'm going to change it to Comic Sans.

[00:23:57]I'm not going to look at anything else.

[00:23:58]I'm just going to write some ideas down." So, I have some new thoughts. I don't know if it really fixes anything. I don't know. I'm looking at my calendars to try to think like, "Does this work on the calendar level?" That's where I am for the moment. I'm feeling frustrated, but I'm also >> [sighs and gasps] >> I just wish my brain could work faster.

[00:24:21]I knew it was too early to outline. I told you. I told you that.

[00:24:25]In the last vlog, I was like, "I feel like I should have something else to do first." Yeah, it's cuz the plot wasn't there yet.

[00:24:33]It's fine. I'm just going to keep working on this, and hope that this really tired, fuzzy-headed brain can do something halfway decent. I feel like I need to print new calendars, new where even are they? They're all mixed up over here. Oh my gosh.

[00:24:53]All these like I've already redone the September and the August and September calendars, and I feel like I'm going to have to redo them again.

[00:25:04]Kind of I'm like, "May Should I make more coffee?" I'm like cranky.

[00:25:09]Gosh darn it. I'm just frustrated. I'm frustrated. I just want the story to like be there. Just like give me the story, so I can move forward and continue working through the scene-by-scene outline.

[00:25:22]I really want to be done. I really want to be done with that, so I can do the stuff to compile for my editor, so I can send it to her, so I can get her feedback, so I can incorporate her feedback, and then actually start drafting. I really want to be drafting.

[00:25:33]That's what I want to do.

[00:25:36]It's way too early to draft. Uh let me get going instead of sitting here complaining. Let me get some work done.

[00:25:43]It's all her fault. Yes.

[00:25:46]It's all your fault that you that I'm so tired.

[00:25:52]Is it your fault? Yeah, it's your fault.

[00:25:55]Mhm. Where are you going to go? Where are you What? I don't have anything for you.

[00:26:01]What do you think it's Oh, is it almost time?

[00:26:04]Oh, it's almost time for special snack.

[00:26:06]It's not time yet. It's almost time.

[00:26:08]Almost. Can you sit?

[00:26:14]Good girl. Look at that good girl waiting for her stuff, but not yet. It's too early. It's only quarter to nine.

[00:26:23]Special snack is at 9:00.

[00:26:54]All right, it is sometime later. I brought in the reinforcements with the coffee. Um I'm just really struggling with being tired. I tried to take a nap.

[00:27:06]I laid down for like an hour. I didn't fall asleep. I didn't even really doze.

[00:27:10]I was just thinking about this dang story. I had some lunch. I'm going to have this coffee. I'm going to try to work my way through this um calendar. That's what I left off on.

[00:27:21]I've streamlined some things. I feel like there's some weird time gaps that I'm not sure about. One of those time gaps could be a little bit fudged, but it has like Okay, so here's the thing. In Regency England times, there are really four ways, I guess, that you can get married legally. The very fun Regency way, of course, is to run away to Gretna Green and go get married in Scotland, cuz they didn't have the same laws that England did. Elope, basically.

[00:27:50]Okay, that's option one. I'm not I don't want to do that with this, but that is an option. Option two is having the bands or bonds read, um which is just for three Sundays in a row, the minister, the vicar, whoever in your home parish has to announce, "Hey, these two want to get married. If anyone knows a reason why they shouldn't, like, you better tell me quick, cuz they're getting married in like 3 weeks." So, the issue with the bonds being read is that it takes time. You have to wait three Sundays, 3 weeks to have them read, and make sure nobody objects to anything. The second way is a common license. I'll come back to that one, cuz that's what I'm going to try to use here.

[00:28:31]The fourth way is a special license. The special license is also used a lot in Regency romances. It's used maybe a little too much. There are rules, really strict rules surrounding this. It basically allowed you to get married immediately, so you didn't have to wait, but it had to be issued by the archbishop in London. Okay? And he was not just handing these out to whoever just stopped by to ask for one. They were expensive. You had to pay for it, and you typically had to have a pretty good reason for why you needed things expedited.

[00:29:06]And so, anyway, there were very few of those that were actually handed out in real life. They're used a lot in Regency romance. It's, you know, it kind of is like, "Oh, romantic thing. He's going to go get a special license, so we don't have to wait." And all this kind of stuff. But, in real life, like, if you're just impatient, that's really not a good enough reason for the archbishop to give you the thing. Anyway, the other option is a common license. Common license, you can usually get within a week, and then you can marry kind of whenever you want. One of the stipulations with the common license is that you have to be a resident in the parish in which you want to get married for a month. My characters are not in their home parishes. They're at a house party.

[00:29:48]And so I'm like, do we wait a month?

[00:29:50]Then you might as well just read the bonds. I also was reading that sometimes they sort of overlooked that residency requirement and they were like, "Eh, just it's probably fine." They would kind of just like shuffle it to the side a little bit. Uh so I'm like, can we just shuffle that to the side a little bit for convenience's sake? Also, how many readers are that familiar with common licenses and the stipulations for having one? I don't know. Anyway, I'm kind of rambling, but I'm dealing with all that kind of stuff.

[00:30:20]Do we wait? Do we rush it? Do we How do we How do we fudge some of these rules? Do we fudge some of the rules? I don't know. So let me keep going with this calendar and see how things are kind of panning out now, where things are falling.

[00:30:37]There's other celestial elements that need to be taken into consideration.

[00:30:43]Certain portions of the story need to take place in October in order for certain other things to be visible. Yeah, I'm just struggling. Oh my gosh. Can I bump the entire story later?

[00:31:02]I could, maybe. All right, anyway, let me get back to this and figure out what the heck I'm doing.

[00:31:07]Hey, it's um That was Sunday, the last clip you saw.

[00:31:12]It's Tuesday today. It's Tuesday, March 10th, and here I am in my living room. I I finished the outline this morning.

[00:31:22]Kind of. I think Act Three, with the changes I made, is stronger. It definitely works better than what I had before. I was kind of like rushing through the last several scenes, kind like kind of on purpose, just to try to get like the basic idea for the scenes in place. So I'm done with the outline in that I was gone through to the epilogue and filled stuff in, but things are still kind of incomplete. So what I'm going to do, what my plan is for the rest of this week, I really actually I don't know if I I don't want to say about timelines, but what I'd like to do for the rest of this week, since it's only Tuesday, I still have final details in this outline to fill in.

[00:32:08]I've got to do that first. Then I have to take the scene-by-scene breakdown and put it into that prose format that I can actually send to my editor for review.

[00:32:17]That's going to be That's going to be chunky, so we can we'll get to that later.

[00:32:23]But that's like the next step. And then I also have a couple supplemental documents I'm going to send with this.

[00:32:29]I'm going to have that list of characters just so that we have a list of characters who are in the outline and in the story.

[00:32:37]I am going to put together a little just a very short kind of write-up with some historical details, background on certain elements, so that it makes sense within the context of the story and the outline and everything, because it's really awkward in an outline to be like, "The heroine wants to do this thing."

[00:33:01]And then you have to like break and be like, "Let me explain all of the background of what this thing is and what it means and where it came from and blah blah blah." But like, I don't want that in the outline. So I'm going to have it just in its own little side document. I actually did start that a little earlier today. I was like, "Let me write up a little thing about this and a little thing about that." So I've got that going. I think that's it. I don't think I'm going to do like a character profile for the characters.

[00:33:24]I'm just going to leave it. She's read Book One, obviously, and so she's met these two characters already.

[00:33:32]I feel like you kind of get a sense of who they are in Book One, and then this is Book Two. Right. So anyway, I'm not going to do a character profile on on either of them. The little historical write-up and the list of characters is pretty easy, like that's not going to take a long time. It's the outline document that's going to take me a while.

[00:33:53]It's only Tuesday.

[00:33:55]I really don't think I can get it done by the end of the week. That feels like I'm pushing it. Um maybe I'll finish up over the weekend. But that is going to be in the next vlog. And hopefully that will be the last vlog in this series, honestly, because once that outline is like fully approved and she's like, "Go write it." I think then I'm allowed to share. I'll clarify. That's my plan is get the outline like fully approved.

[00:34:23]Maybe we'll have a vlog where we're revising pieces in it, depending on what her feedback is. If she's like, "This is terrible. You need to work on this for another couple months before you can draft it." I don't think she's going to say that, but I'm sure she'll have something, some kind of feedback that will need to be implemented. Um and that'll be super helpful. I'm really excited to have that kind of dev edit feedback at this stage of things.

[00:34:45]Anyway, we'll get to that in the next vlog. So for now, if you liked this video, you can give it a thumbs up. And if you haven't subscribed, you can click the subscribe button. I usually post videos on Fridays. These I think have been going up like Tuesday, Fridays, so we can get you up to speed and caught up with everything. Thanks so much for watching. I hope you have a great rest of your day and I will see you next time. Bye.

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