Alright, boy-ohs and girlies, I"ve tried my best, I really have, but writing is way harder than I could have ever imagined. I"m at 216 chapter, 218 if you count *******, and about 90-95% of the story has been written without much consideration for outlining. A while ago, I started a wiki for the novel to try to keep track of everything and only now am I starting to understand the magnitude of the mistakes I"ve made writing up to this point.Anyway, the announcement this time is to let you know that my writing pace hasn"t simply slowed. I"m just taking the majority of my time chronicling everything that"s happened and will happen and thinking up solutions to the problems that I"ve detected in the logic of the story; or plotholes. I"ll probably take a while and until I"m confident in where the story will head, I"ll continue putting out a depressingly low number of chapters every week.
It feels wrong to not say anything and even worse keeping my ******* collecting despite the obvious downgrade to my writing speed. So, despite my obvious bias in wanting to keep Patreons, I"d caution everyone supporting me to only continue doing so if you"re fine with the current situation. Webnovel, Royalroad and my ******* all keep publishing dates on the chapters I release, so you can keep track of my writing speed by looking there; until you feel it"s worth it, reconsider wasting your time or money during these unstable times. I probably should have made this announcement sooner, considering the downgrade to my writing speed has been around for a month"s worth of time, so I apologize.
I"ll be putting out chapters when I can, but the majority of my focus right now is revisiting already published chapters, touching them up and doc.u.menting whatever I can in the novel"s wiki page. Anyone wondering where I"m at can check the wiki page and even contribute if they"re bored enough. That is all for now~
UPDATE (December 29th, 2019)
Alright, I"m about to get really real and admit to being a really s.h.i.tty author these last three to four months. Truth be told, I really did want to take time to update the wiki and figure out how to handle what I thought were this novel"s biggest failings in plot holes. However, to do that and find details that might have only been mentioned in pa.s.sing, I had to eventually turn to rereading entire chapters.
Guys... I"m being as sincere as I possibly can right now. I have no f.u.c.king clue how I"ve developed a following after rereading the first couple chapters. I understand that authors can grow a lot after a year, but it hasn"t even been that long and I believe the first hundred chapters are Trash with a capital T. It"s borderline unreadable (upon proofreading this tirade, this might be a mild exaggeration, but it is true to my thoughts nonetheless) and the fact that I have nearly 4,000 followers after combining the collections on Webnovel with those following on RoyalRoad is incomprehensible to me. There are still even 19 people supporting me on ******* when I haven"t released squat in nearly two months!
I"ve tried to ignore this. I"ve tried to work on other books. h.e.l.l I"ve even messed around with fanfiction, hoping to one day wake up and see everyone gone. Like the book had never existed. But like I said, there are still 4,000 people waiting for releases. More joining by the day and people still supporting the novel with spirits stones. Even 19 who value two chapters being at least a dollar.
Every time I think I"m ready to move on, ready to completely shut down the novel to start a new one, I think about those people and realize, "I"m a f.u.c.king b.i.t.c.h. Just finish the f.u.c.king novel, idiot." The pa.s.sing of time has only made the feeling worse, so I guess this is a message consigning myself to completing this book, by any means necessary. I won"t be able to focus on another story otherwise, so this update is more for me than for my audience.
That being said, the reason I felt inclined to give up on the novel in the first place was because of how terrible I found my writing from a nearly a year ago. So, I want to stress that I"m not going chuck a bunch of s.h.i.t together to finish the story. Rather, I"m going to go back and rewrite things as I continue to catalogue things on the wiki.
Last couple things I want to quickly mention:
- I haven"t really used any of the money I"ve made on ******* so I want to commission a legit book cover. Ditch that s.h.i.t I made with my lacking Photoshop Skills...
-More on the money thing, after I finish rewriting the novel — it"ll mostly be editing details that make the book seem less like it was written by an amateur, so the story progression won"t at all change — I plan on also hiring people to format Book 1 and eventually Book 2 into legit e-reader and paperback formats. I know, I know...
"Greedy author, have you no shame?"
Honestly, I want to follow pirate aba"s style of keeping everything free, and I will. I"m not going to enter a contract with Webnovel or paywall chapters through kindle. However, for the people who for whatever reason want to have a kindle or physical copy of this (current dumpster fire of a) novel, I want it to at least be possible. There"s also the benefit of gaining new readers through Amazon this way which is always a plus.
Like the G.O.A.T. pirate aba — check out her (I think it"s a her) book The Wandering Inn — I"ll keep all the chapters on Webnovel and Royalroad free. Though the ******* thing will still be in effect at least until I finish the series or whatever.
-Since I"m rewriting the novel for the most part, I"ll make more announcements as I continue updating the novel; meaning adding on to the story (Chapter 219, 220, etc...)
Unless it becomes too annoying and people request against it, I"ll be adding "Revised" to Chapters that have been, well... revised.
-I"m going to be having some polls on RoyalRoad on a couple important things as I start getting back into the grind of updating this novel.
Namely: Should I change the name of the novel? If so, to what? What would you guys like the book cover to look like? Should I change the name of the Books/Arcs?
Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
That is all for now. So... I guess this is Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Years all in one?