Novel Writing Brainstorming Forum

I feel like I've written 20k words to describe what could be summed up in 1k and I've only just realized this evening that I haven't checked in with a character for several chapters.

It's all right, aside from that.

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And when you look long into the abyss, the abyss also looks into you."-Nietzsche