So, here's the thing. I have actually been looking for and not finding an opportunity for a time-skip for quite a while now. I am now going through edits and re-writes in which I'm now planning on having the kids stay in the village for quite a bit longer and get a lot older before the events at the end. (a kid knifing an adult hunter will be a bit less impressive than an infant knifing an adult hunter, but it will help me with a lot of the problems I'm having now.)
The thing is, I REALLY wanted them to all be at least 5 before the next major development in the story. But, it's starting to look like things are developing in a way where that development could happen while they're still toddlers but, if that happened, then the action scenes I was planning will make absolutely no sense. They actually have to be older in order to have the motor skills for what I had planned.
So, I am just not finding a point where a time-skip will make sense. So, I can do one of two things here. Either stick in a time skip where it DOESN'T make sense, or I can go ahead and ramble for a while in the story and not have it really reach the major developments in quite as fast of a pace as I had wanted. It will make things run smoother, but it would essentially mean there's a huge block of filler in the story.
So, most of the people who have gotten this far are going to be people who are into this story and enjoying it so far. Both options here before us will lower the quality of the story. The only thing that fixes this is what I'm currently doing in the re-writes which, due to that major change I'm planning on making, will no longer be compatible with integration into the current version. This means that this rough draft version is going to have a scar on it. It's just a matter of choosing how that scar is going to look.
So, I'm a fan of polls. Which of these two bad options would all of you like to see?
(Also, the chapter I am currently writing (which is 4 chapters ahead of this one) is a place where I have an opportunity to start moving this toward a rather choppy feeling time-skip if that option is selected. So, I will unfortunately have to delay the release of the next chapter until the poll results are in for this poll to actually mean anything.)
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Sticking in a time-skip in a place where it doesn't really make sense. Votes: 38 50.0%
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Having a big chunk of filler until I find a place where I can work a time-skip in. Votes: 38 50.0%
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Mmmmm, I think Jimini-sama should create some filler chapters. I know that many of us readers fear too many boring chapters, but it is not like we haven't read a few novels that had an entire volume of side chapters. I think we can endure for a bit.
More importantly, I think we should show patience so that Jimini-sama can create a perfect point to do a time skip. We can't allow the story's flow to become too unnatural. Plus, Jimini-sama can set up several plot devices of world development and kingdom building before starting the time skip, and when I consider such thoughts, I can certainly show some patience
Maybe training montage chapter can do the job? Obviously, Aerien will go after dryad sooner or later. The dryad which doesn't seem to be antagonistic to MC and just tries to "help" in its own whimsical way.
When you try to have a poll but it's completely even. [35-36 as of this post]
Either way i'm going to continue to read your story. Do you have a personal preference for your course of action?
As I saw that the longer this thing stayed up, the closer to a perfect 50-50 it got, I also figured out the perfect synthesis solution that would get a quick but logical time-skip in there. Really though, I think it was the week I took off the series that allowed my mind to consider things differently. So, the poll ultimately just wound up being something to keep people occupied while my brain rested and came up with the right answer.
I don't have strong feelings one way or the other, and going by the results, it seems to be the prevailing sentiment. Just do whatever works better for you.
I must say I like this story a lot.
I started reading this last week and basically haven't been able to stop. ...my sleep schedule has become a lot more erratic, I won't blame you for that though.
Over the course of the chapters I noticed a few minor spelling errors, several of them recurring. Luckily, said errors have become a lot more rare for every chapter you release.
I couldn't help but notice that Sagel's name is misspelled as Sagal a few times. (or is it the other way around?)
I feel like I have been trying to stick with "Sagel," but whenever someone brings this up I suddenly forget what I've been writing. The part of my brain that handles writing is different from the part of the brain that handles memory and conversation.
Give them growth spurts the same way you did the MC
You should also remember that fae tend to bend the truth like a promise to protect the kingdom might not apply for grey elves because they might endanger the kingdom and they are not “proper residents” so they don’t apply to the promise.
Oh yes, I am well aware of how lawyeristic the fey can get. I wrote that straight into the oath itself. It's designed to sound like it encompasses a lot, but it has so much wiggle room that there's really only 2 actual constants in it. 1. Keep how things will affect the kingdom in mind. 2. Intervene if the dryads are causing problems. Aside from those 2 core principles, everything else is just flowery speech. And, even those two absolutes have a lot of wiggle room to them.
It could also be both because a unsatisfied fae and a demon taking advantage of him/her
Maybe from the demons or faeries
An attempted assassination that leave her in a coma