into the pit, my king was originally capped out at 50k—it ended with the big battle in hell, and didn't include the last 20k or so of trying to resolve the war in the mortal world. i think the choice to keep going, and add resolution was good, but looking back i think i would have made a more concentrated effort for that last segment to hit hard, to really pull each character's development and tie it up in a neat little bow. i think in its current state it lacks a bit of oomf, a bit of strength come the end. the battle in hell is the Climax, but the falling action doesn't feel Right—but that could just be me. adding that last portion Was a huge change though.

As for changes while drafting (less an addition of things, and more the actual structuring?) dog gospel had a few big changes, which i talked about at the end of the fic. it was originally an ot3 told from zyx's pov—and he was removed from the story as a character entirely by the final draft. then it started after kjm's dad's death (bc of the prompt's wording) but that didnt feel right either—i felt that if the dad's death was going to cause upheaval, we had to know the type of person he was. hence starting the fic Way in the past.

a prophecy of storms also has a pretty detailed document that explains my process, but i think its probably the most complete remnant of a Really Really old wip of mine (that i ended up deleting almost entirely bc of frustration with it) called Colossus in the Cut. in that sense, the changes would've been the positioning of the characters and the genre of story. colossus was a high-seas, pirate quest(?) featuring a captured potionmaker skilled in reality manipulation and creation magic, aristocrat turned pirate (searching for the keys to godhood), and minseok was a mage who knew the location of one of the items needed to champion the gods? IIRC? in APOS minseok and bbh actually swapped plots (minseok gets captured by kjd and bbh, rather than the other way around), but bbh retains the same magic he'd possessed in colossus. kjd kept his personality, but his quest changed, and his character became more at odds with minseok than bbh!