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Behind the scenes Mistakes stuff! I have so many notes, and most of it is my neurotic inability to edit anything without making a copy and tracking multiple versions, but some of it might be kind of interesting? Here's an outline.

Around chapter... 5, apparently, I realized that a single chaos notes document wasn't ideal for keeping track of where the story was going and what scene made the most sense to happen next. So, I started a doc to 1) list out the overall sequence of the story 2) sort the chaos notes along where they should go. The full doc is 25,177 words long, and includes a 'summary' at the top, and then that summary filled in with the scribbled scenes and notes that might fit in each section.

I re-outlined every few chapters as I came up with details and did or didn't use particular scenes, and going back I'm surprised how much the formatting changes over time.

( Here's the 'summary' outline I wrote to orient myself after chapter 5! Plus the first block of notes, for chapter 6. )

I've got one or twoish Jazz-Soundwave interactions in misc notes for something like a far-future in Mistakes continuity. Just for fun.

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( Here's abt 500 words of chatter! )

Ok so, premise: Protectobots are experimental Shockwave-made Cons. First Aid, Streetwise, and Blades get captured in a general territory exchange, commence Autobots and gestalt staring at each other mutually weirded out by how nice they are.

Or rather, the gestalt is panicking, the Autobots are weirded out by how nice First Aid is, and Blades is attacking anyone who looks at First Aid weird. Streetwise has been trying to stay out of it.

( Here's a late-draft floating scene from that! )