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We finally reach the conclusion of Book 2. This one covers a lot more "in-universe time" than most chapters, so things are pretty compressed. It's an epilogue, so to speak, so things are pretty calm and go smoothly. That also means there's a fair amount of detail that gets kinda glossed over to try to keep things moving.

I'm trying not to beat myself up too much over it, but I do worry that it's not a great chapter. If I was to combine these into a published novel, I might try to trim earlier parts of the book to make room for more ending or something, but I also couldn't really think of good ways to keep momentum on something that's winding down. Still, I don't think it's a bad chapter, necessarily. I dunno.

I have ideas for Book 3, but I want to try to plan things out better. I might take a bit of a break between Books. I want to try to get an outline and decide exactly what I want the Duo to face and how I want them to handle things, instead of flying by the base of my tail like I did with a lot of Books 1 and 2. I had some "big things" in mind that I could set stuff up in advance for, but a lot of it was also just, "Here's the situation they're in, what do they do now? Oh, they've been doing stuff for 7000 words now? Guess this is where I break the chapter up, okay." ^_^;;

When it comes to word counts, Chapter 30 is 7275 words, making it the 10th longest chapter. Book 1 was a total of 104,811 words, while Book 2 came in at a total of 106,679. This makes the grand total 211,490. However, Book 1 also has those "recap" segments. Those add roughly 2000 words, give or take. Still, I'm pretty proud of the amount I've written so far, and hopefully I can make Book 3 an even better story. It will also probably be the last book for Princess, just because I'm not sure what else I can do with them that won't have already been done. I guess we'll see. ^_^;;