The Descent

Update Log

Hi guys! Finally, some non-diegetic words in this novel! Except that I'm not even in the story, fortunately. This chapter is special, as it is not an ordinary chapter. In this chapter, whatever changes made to the fanfiction will be reflected. This means that whenever a new chapter is uploaded, it will be reflected here, and most importantly, whenever a chapter has been changed in some way, it will be reflected here. This is to inform my readers of those changes so that they could go back to it, and not wonder why the story is unfolding with a seemingly huge number of plot holes everywhere. Anyway, without further ado...

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23rd August 2013: The Descent debuts with chapter 1. Chapter 1 updated with draft 2 on the same day.

24th August 2013: Chapter 2 uploaded.

25th August 2013: Chapter 2 updated with draft 2. Chapter 3 makes its appearance.

26th August 2013: Chapter 4 uploaded and updated with draft 2 on the same day. It's a habit of mine to spot for even more problems and errors after I've uploaded.

28th August 2013: Chapter 5 uploaded.

30th August 2013: Chapter 6 uploaded.

31st August 2013: Chapter 6 has been updated with draft 2.

1st September 2013: Chapter 7 up. Updated with draft 2 on the same day.

3rd September 2013: Chapter 8 up.

5th September 2013: Chapter 9 up.

6th September 2013: Chapter 10 up. Yep, the good old days. I was on fire back then!

8th September 2013: Chapter 11 up.

11th September 2013: Chapter 12 up.

14th September 2013: Chapter 12 updated with draft 2. First time I've updated a chapter this late. Won't be the last. Chapter 13 appears on the same day with a whopping 7,520 words. I thought I could go no further than that.

16th September 2013: The first big change made to previously written chapters. Chapter 5, 10 and 12 has been updated with draft 2, 2 and 3 respectively in order to make the dates of Mindy's diary accurate to real world dates. It was an honest mistake.

18th September 2013: Chapter 14 uploaded and updated with draft 2 on the same day.

21st September 2013: Chapter 15 up.

23rd September 2013: Chapter 16 up. I was still going at a very fast pace then. Seems unbelievable now (now as in 23rd October 2013)

25th September 2013: Chapter 17 up.

28th September 2013: Chapter 18 up.

30th September 2013: Chapter 19 up.

4th October 2013: Chapter 20 uploaded and updated with draft 2 on the same day. The beginning of me slowing down.

5th October 2013: Chapter 21 up. I believe I was celebrating a new month with The Descent by writing another chapter immediately after the next.

11th October 2013: Chapter 22 up. Progress grinding to a slow speed.

21st October 2013: Chapter 23 up. Just when I thought things couldn't be slower.

23rd October 2013: Chapter 23 updated with draft 2. From here onwards, I will also include explicit details on what is being changed. In this case, I added a 215 words paragraph just after the bit when Mindy finishes her pistol marksmanship exercise frustrated. I won't spoil it for you guys about what it is. This Update Log is uploaded, after much procrastination.

26th October 2013: Chapter 23 updated with draft 3. Dave's dad no longer *SPOILER AHEAD* learns about Mindy regaining much of her memory of her past life. Also, Chapter 21 updated with draft 2. Both chapters have a similar error to amend – two different persons' dialogue have been accidentally put into the same paragraph, creating difficulties for some readers. I'd like to thank Koryandrs for pointing this out and reminding me, because I've been procrastinating making the correction since I knew about this since chapter 21.

28th October 2013: Chapter 24 released.

29th October 2013: Chapter 24 updated with Draft 2. I strongly urge everyone who'd read Chapter 24 Draft 1 to reread the chapter, as every single paragraph has been altered in one way or another, some only in terms of grammar, while others even more, sometimes with entire sentences taken away or put in. There might be small little things that had been changed, added or taken away, and they might affect the whole experience – hence, I recommend rereading the chapter, and it's not because I want more hits, don't worry about it! :D

3rd November 2013: Chapter 25 uploaded. First chapter under the flag of NaNoWriMo.

8th November 2013: Chapter 26 done and uploaded. This is the second chapter to be done for NaNoWriMo.

16th November 2013: Chapter 27 done and uploaded. Third NaNoWriMo chapter.

3rd December 2013: Chapter 28 uploaded. Finally. This is the final chapter done for NaNoWriMo, well, partially, as I got swarmed by real life things to deal with.

14th January 2014: Chapter 29 uploaded.

23rd February 2014: Chapter 30 uploaded.

23rd February 2014: Neglected routine check. Did routine check. Fixed some obvious mistakes and polished up a number of mildly wrong phrasings and sentence structure. Chapter 30 updated with a draft 2.