Especially when it's your own story you spot them in.

The reason 'Secret War' hasn't updated in a really long time(and also why I haven't been around much the last week or so) is because I was recently made aware of the fact that there's a very large plothole in one of the core storylines and have been spending all my free time madly reworking my outline and re-writing the chapters I'm working on to correct it.

Okay, if you follow the story, you know who the Dark God is, right? He's essentially the Zelda-verse version of the Devil, the originator and living embodiment of evil. He's a very, very bad person. You are *not* supposed to sympathize or agree with him at any point. (Somebody else is the sympathetic villain. Sorry, no spoilers for you)

So, why, exactly, did his reason for rebelling against the Goddesses, which I have written as all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfect, make complete logical sense? Why, exactly, is he technically the 'good guy' in the core issue of his argument? Because I'm a bonehead, that's why. I was so busy focusing on the intricacies of the plot that this larger, fundamental flaw slipped right past me. This is why you talk to other people about your work, fellow writers. It keeps mistakes like this from getting *really* embarrassing.

Luckily this was caught early enough in the story that I can quite easily fix this without disagreeing with any previously released material.

The next chapter (Chapter 10) is the one in which the basic story of the Dark God's origins and how he got to be evil is laid out in detail for the first time in 'Secret War', along with some other stuff. I already had one version of this story in my earlier fic 'The Hero of Lightning', but this version is much more thorough, as it is quite essential to the plot of 'Secret War'; it explains what, exactly, the titular Secret War is. I of course expand on it further as the story goes along, but this is the chapter where the reader should start to get a basic idea of what's really going on behind the scenes of the Zelda-verse.

Now, granted, having the character you thought was the Ultimate Villain turn out to actually be the good guy would be an awesomely mind-blowing twist, but it doesn't really work for Legend of Zelda, especially not with my narrative universe and the way I've set it up.

I shall, however, file this away in my notes for a potential original novel someday; I could have a lot of fun with a curveball like that.

So, once I get that ironed out, I shall finally post Chapter 10 and get moving on the story again. Like I said in an earlier journal; I haven't even gotten this thing really going yet.

And to my Star Wars fans: This has, as you can see, occupied quite a lot of my time recently. I'm afraid I haven't gotten anything more done on my 'One Missed Strike' stories, so you'll have to wait a while longer for updates. Sorry about that. Studying for Finals has largely contributed to me not having any free time, also.

Later!