u/Brilliant_Knee3824

Hi all! I have had a story bouncing around in my head for a while. Sometimes I world build, sometimes I try my hand at writing, but mostly I daydream about it being published one day and make no actual steps towards achieving that goal.

I go on long breaks of writing, usually when I get frustrated or overwhelmed. I take a few months off to just read and remember why I love story telling. Well, I happened to have read a phenomenal book this week and I am ready to dive in again!

The problem is I have realized two pretty important things. 1. I am not writing for the age I think I am. What I wanted to be an adult romantacy is more of a teen fantasy adventure. 2. My names are overly complicated. Made sense at first, on a reread I am thinking "oh my god this will take forever for anyone to learn, much less a teen if I change the target audience age!"

The names are easy enough to swap. The age changes a lot of things, but more so a softening and censoring type of thing. Neither feel impossible, but the thing is, I wrote all of Act 1 which is about 25% of the story.

Do I take the time to go back and correct what I have already done, or is it better to adjust my plan and just keep writing? My worry if I keep going is that I will loose interest and feel inconsistent in my own story. But if I go back and correct, I might never stop correcting.

Is there a right or wrong here? I think all of it will depend on the individual writer, but I am curious to hear what other, more experienced writers, would do in this situation. So thank you for any advice!

Hi all! My fiancé and I are getting married in the fall, and I am trying to work to narrow down the groomsmen clothes.

We know what we want for both parties. I always knew I would do an Azazie or similar, pick a color and material, and let my friends pick whatever dress suits them best. The men were always going to be in pretty casual attire (original thought was cotton button downs tucked into tan dress pants), but I went a little too fancy on my bridesmaid dress material, so now the men need an upgrade too.

Anyway, I found a really nice suit vest that I like with matching pants on Azazie as well. The color is perfect, I know they will all match this way, and I think the vision is good. My fiancé hasn't been in a wedding since he was a teenage, and I have not really given much thoughts to mens attire in the weddings I have been in, so I wasn't sure what the expectation was.

I know I paid about $120 for my Azazie dress, which seems on point for what they current are. I did have to get mine adjusted for like $80, but I am not sure if that will be the case for my ladies. They do have the option for hair and makeup, but that is completely optional. All of that to say is, at most, they have to pay about $120 for the dress and nothing else if they want to.

The men would be at $130 for the vest and pants. This feels really comparable, and they don't have the possible added cost of hair or makeup or even tailoring.

I have never really paid much attention to the time and money expectations of the groomsmen. They always seemed to do a little less in terms of time, and most weddings I have been to had the men in suits. Again, still learning the way of mens fashion, but it seems as though most men have a suit on hand for these kinds of events, and they usually only buy ties or bowties or pocket square or whatever special thing they need for the wedding is. This leads me to believe that the assumption of the money commitment for groomsmen is typically lower too.

Now, that whole last paragraph is relying on a lot of conjecture, but my point is, I worry about sticker shocking anyone. We have some pretty different ages, occupations, and money availability between the groomsmen (more so than the bridesmaids), which is probaby adding to my worries. I don't think $130 is unreasonable to spend for the men at all, but I am having some anxieties about it even though my fiancé says he thinks it is fine. Can you all either reassure me or correct me if it is too much? Thanks!