Hello, Everyone! This update might be a bit different from the other one.  In addition to talking about Book Two and the progress of Book Three, I want to go over some of the details that didn't quite make it from the first draft of this story.  In additional, I have some ideas for two or three new stories I would like to write concurrently while I do this story. 

 

Without further ado, let's get started.

Actually, I lied.  Book Two can wait!

Illustration Time!

I have some pictures for you, courtesy from waifulabs.com, of Servi, Momo, and the girl inside Momo's conscience.

I lied, I have more pictures than just them.  All of these pictures are going in the glossary, too.

Servi - Okay, for her, I imagined she had red eyes and black hair that came just below her shoulders.  As you can see from below, they stop just above her shoulders.  I couldn't find one that had the hair length I want, but imagine the hair being a tiny bit longer until it drips past her shoulders. Other than that, that's how I pictured Servi to look.

PS - It's also my new profile picture on Scribblehub.

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Momo - My description for Momo was pink hair, pink ears, pink tail, and blue eyes.  Again, I tried to get as close as possible as I could.  Imagine the eyes a little bit bluer, and the hair a little bit longer.  Oh, that blue thing on her hair? Imagine it's not there.  Other than that, I'm happy with it. It's exactly what I pictured her to be.

P.S: She's adorable, isn't she?

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Girl Inside Momo's consciousness - She and Momo are supposed to look the same, but their ears and tails are different.  I did my best in waifulabs to make them the same, but with different ears.  I did manage to get the right colored eyes I wanted.  I do wish it was a bit easier.  Regardless, imagine the hair and eyes below with the face above.  Though maybe make the hair a little bit shorter.

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Qina Keywater - Now, My description for Qina and Claus was the following: Blue eyes and blond hair. Qina's hair is longer than Claus's.  To picture Claus, imagine short hair and a male body.  They are twins, so they look alike.  I know they didn't show up that much in Book Two, but they will re-appear.

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Srassa - The noble girl that Momo befriends when they're training under Dineria.  My description was blond hair and green eyes.  Other than the earring, I think that's an earring(My eye sight isn't the greatest,) it's exactly how I pictured her. Hey, who knows, maybe she'll get an earring in the future.

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Dineria - I don't think I ever mentioned her eye color in the story.  Well, it's green.  In waifulabs, I tried and tried to find pointy ears, because she's an Elf, but I couldn't.  Either I was unlucky with the refreshes, or I'm blind.  Regardless, picture her with pointy ears and there you go.

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Claire - Like Dineria, I don't think I ever mentioned Claire's eye color. I intended it to be purple from the start, but I don't think I actually said it.  Imagine her with pointy ears, and there you have Claire.

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Waifulabs, as a whole, is pretty helpful.  My one complaint is that I have to click refresh the grid over and over and over and over again until I find what I'm looking for. I can't complain too much, though.  I have no artistic ability in my body.  I do want to commission official art work in the future.

 

Book Two

I'm sure none of y'all expected Book Two to be a training/tournament arc, did you? Since Book One didn't have a lot of Momo in it, I wanted to include a ton of her in the next one.  She's a main character from here on out, so I wanted her to develop a little bit. She's still somewhat childish, but I think she's growing well.

Servi, on the other hand, stayed somewhat the same until her fight with Fisher.  It was only then that she realized she misinterpreted things on her first day.  Her hatred of him lasted for months because of a misunderstanding. Honestly, who could blame her given the circumstance? 

Oh, but now the readers know that Servi's emotions are being manipulated by Itarr in order to keep her happy.  That's why she was looking forward to things she didn't really want to do.  She never wanted to stand out in front of people, but she volunteered to lift Feral's shield.  She was having fun when she was learning under Fisher, which was the result of Itarr wanting Servi to be happy.

It's a very twisted kind of love, but for Itarr, it's the only love she knows.  Remember, she was locked up for hundreds of thousands of years.  She only knows her name, skills, and very little knowledge about the outside world.  The rest she learns from Servi, who isn't exactly the sanest one around.  Even without Itarr manipulating Servi's anger, Servi has an anger problem herself. Servi has deep mental problems, and she's relying on both Momo and Itarr to stay grounded.  

The same thing with Momo.  She's relying on Servi as a source of strength and inspiration that keeps the bad thoughts away.  At the end of Book Two, Momo writes in her diary and thinks to herself that she's glad to be alive.  After she had to leave her village, she wanted to kill herself.  She didn't think she had a right to live any more.

Speaking of which, Momo's actually suffering, to a certain extent, from Dependent Personality Disorder  She was fine during the month long training because of two reasons:  The first being the fact she would see Servi every day, and her growing friendship with Srassa.  What she couldn't get from Servi she got from Srassa.

The same thing with the Final Exam.  She knew she would see Servi again, so she didn't freak out that much. Again, she got what she would've gotten from Servi from Srassa.  One could argue that her actions when Servi was knocked out the first time was because she was scared.  She didn't know what the heck was going on and only found out when Dineria told her when she was treating Servi.

There's a link below if you want to read more about it.

https://www.healthline.com/health/dependent-personality-disorder#causes-and-symptoms 

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Oh yeah, Book Two, in it's pre-pre-pre-pre-outline, was going to be much darker.  During the final exam, I had planned on Servi succumbing to her anger and killing Fisher.  Silverado and the others would investigate, and she would kill them too.  Servi would end up walking back to Canary covered in blood and guts.  

I thought that was too dark.  I don't have any problem with dark things, but I don't want this story to always be dark.  There has to be some light in it or else it's just depressing. That's not to say that the depressing moments aren't going to come, they are, I wanted a light fluffy Book before the events of Book Three. 

 

Oh yeah, one of the characters introduced in Book Two will eventually be part of Servi and Momo's party, thus adventuring with them.  Can you guess which one? 

 

Romance?!

I'm not exactly being subtle with it, but the main romance is going to be Servi x Momo. The end of Book Two had some nice things happen.  Itarr told Servi what Momo said when Servi was asleep,  Momo gathered the courage to basically ask Servi out on a date to dinner to ask her about her past, and there was a time in which they just hugged and let their hearts and feelings do the talking. 

Remember, different race relations are not allowed.  Remember the Church? They haven't shown up that much since first introduced, but they will start to show up more and more later on. Keep in mind, though, that most Demi-Humans hate the church.  They don't really care for it that much.  They can't exactly speak out about it, but there may be some who don't gives a rat's ass about the Church's rules.

But what about Itarr? She's inside of Servi, and she's able to see in a 360-degree view around her.  Even if Servi closes her eyes, Itarr can still see.  It'll almost be like having a constant third-wheel when the relationship gets romantic.  I'm curious about how you all think that will play out.

Grammar?

And please, tell me how I did grammar wise? How would you grade my descriptions? Too wordy? Not wordy enough? How about sentence structure? I know someone told me that my writing had some redundancy in it, so I did my best cut some of that out.  How did I do?

I do know that I have some problems with missing a word in a sentence.  Like, sometimes I'll just forget a word.  And I'm having some trouble with commas. I do think I've improved a lot since Book One. When I go back to Book One, I feel like burning and locking it away in an underground vault inside a volcano.  

First Draft

First of all, it was written in first person and not third.

Things that stayed the same: Servi, Itarr, Claus and Qina, juncea, the Skill System, the Blessing System, Warden, Parrel and his giant mansion, Llamare and Liealia(Kinda of), all of the races except for Kobold, and the countries.

In the first draft, Momo didn't exist.  Instead, she was replaced by a Human girl named Lin.  She met Servi after Servi passed out from blood loss.  The whole thing with her stealing food, losing a hand, running away and being attacked by the juncea was the same.  But she didn't die, only passed out.  And when she met Itarr, it wasn't in a jail cell like area, it was a void of pitch black that cracked to reveal a dazzling red light.  But Itarr didn't bless Servi then because she didn't die.  She was just teetering the brink of being alive or dead.  Lin, the girl who Momo replaced, ended up saving Servi.  Then later on, the camp where they were staying got attacked by soldiers and they were looking specifically for Lin.  She was terrified and came up with the plan to kill Servi so she could say that she was kidnapped, and thus wouldn't be punished for leaving.  

Servi then killed herself, and she met Itarr.  This is when Itarr blessed Servi and she woke up.  At that point, Servi was as strong as a regular Human.  Lin passes out from the shock of seeing someone come back to life and Servi goes out to deal with the intruders.  After they died and Servi found out she could absorb souls, her head starting hurting because her mind processed the memories of the souls (something that may or may not come back.)

Servi then walked back to Lin and picked her up and realized that Lin was the only one left alive in the camp.  The attackers had killed everyone else.  So, Servi had Itarr burn the camp to ash and the first part of the book ended with Servi carrying Lin as they just walked down the road with a flaming inferno behind them.

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The second part of the book is about the two of them walking to Canary.  Lin wakes up and tells Servi about what happened and why she was being chased.  I can't explain why because I was able to reuse this plot point in the book, though it doesn't pop up until much later on.

But Servi tells Lin about Itarr and she finds it hard to believe but after seeing Servi use skills without speaking, she accepts it.

They eventually reach Canary and join Warden, but have to do a little fighting tournament to showcase that they actually can fight and hold their on.  Servi had to face Rakred, who in the final version of the story became Warden's inn keeper in Canary.

Both of them passed the test, and Servi saw that Lin was a capable fighter who prefers to use a dagger than the staff.  See, part of Lin's story is that she was forced to heal over and over for hours on end until she passed out, which gave her a phobia of healing with skills.  That's why when she escaped, she learned, from the village she was staying in, to heal with medicine and plants. She likes to help people, but not with skills.

But back to the draft.  Other than Rakred, there was an Elf with red hair that was named Rose who was wanting to join Warden.  Claire didn't exist at the time. 

The rest of the book is about Lin and Servi taking on quests for a few days while they try to save up some money to move to a different city.

During one of those quests, They come across a little lost girl with a single arm.  Servi tried to heal her, but she wasn't strong enough.  They end up taking the girl back with them and look after her.  This plot point of looking after a little child may or may not come back up in the future.

There is a part where Servi does her nightly stroll and she ends up saving a woman and her dog, just like what Servi does in final version.  But instead of giving her a dagger, Servi gives her some money so she could stay at an inn.  In addition, Servi ends up meeting Claus and Qina.  Their designs were the same, but their personalities were totally different.  They're much more snobbish and uptight, looking down on everyone.  They get into a fight and Servi actually cuts off Qina's arm.  After that, Claus activates a teleportation skill and runs away back to Keywater with his sister.

But near the near of the book, Lin and Servi are walking and they see two Earth Elves slaves.  Parrel, still with the same design and personality, buys them and hits them on the way home.  They do this right in front of Servi and Lin.  Servi is mad but Lin doesn't want her to do anything in public.  Servi agrees and they go back to the inn where the little girl is waiting.  She used to be a slave and isn't used to being shown kindness, so she always sleeps on the ground and eats on the floor even when Servi and Lin tell her she can use a bed and eat with forks and spoons.

Later that night, Servi jumps out of the window.  Lin is there leaning against the front of the inn and says she knows about Servi's nightly strolls.  Servi goes to apologize, but Lin says that she wants in.  She wants to help those who can't help themselves.

Some more stuff stuff happens and they find out that Parrel lives in the big giant mansion.  Servi and Lin assault it and Lin mainly plays support.  At this point, Servi used the skill Bloodline on Lin, and she's receiving some of Servi's skills that she absorbed, as well as her strength.  So she's using Wind Strike and Fire Ball to provide backup.

They fight through the place and eventually come across a guard to tells them where the slaves are being held at.  It's in the basement.  Lin and Servi go to the basement and find an extremely large door and a bunch of jail cells along the walls.  They go through the cell and find a giant group of slaves all grouped together and they're protected by guards.  Servi and Lin kills the guards.  The slaves are all Demi-Humans and can't speak the common tongue, so they have some trouble until someone offers to act as a translator.  Suddenly, the large door inside the room opens up and a dragon comes out.  Servi stays behind and allows Lin to run away with the slaves, with the two Earth Elves with her.

Servi beats the dragon by having him crush her Earth Walls and absorbing them, then letting them go above the dragon until he's crushed to death.

After that, Servi retreats out, helps Lin with some reinforcements that showed up, and heals up all of the slaves.  They do their best to thank Servi and Lin and runaway.  Parrel then comes out and says he'll pay whatever they want if they let him live.  They say no and Servi kills him.  Then, she uses Earth Wall to go high in the air and sets fire to the giant mansion.  She turns around and uses Absorption to absorb part of the wall surrounding the city so the slaves can escape through it.  Then, she uses Earth Walls to make a ton of the in random places in the city to prevent the guards from coming to the mansion.

Lin rushes to the inn in the confusion and meets up with Servi a moment later.  She asks to make sure the child, that they're looking after, is okay.  Lin say she is and that she's sleeping with the old woman who runs the inn.

The book ends with Itarr saying she has to go away to process all of the souls that they absorbed that night and it'll take about a month or so.  Servi says okay and cries when she speaks and no body answers her.

Why I Scrapped It

I wasn't comfortable writing in first person at the time, and I really only had the first book planned.  I do still have it all saved to my onedrive, so I could put it up.  I won't because I'm too embarrassed by it and it contains spoilers for something that has yet to be revealed in the current story.  Another reason is that I felt like I was rushing things a lot.  Like, first book in and Servi already killed a dragon that Parrel had locked in the dungeon.

Another reason is that that version of Servi was definitely OP.  Even more than the Servi of the final version.  Her Absorption had a range of over 1 kilometer to start with, and she gained a ton of strength whenever she absorbed a soul. 

And I felt like it was kind of unrealistic in the sense of "Hey, I know we met a few days ago and you tried to kill me, but let's take this kid in and provide for her, even though I don't know you that well."

But I do think I had some good plot points, I just didn't know how to accurately tackle them in a way that I would happy.

Book Three

As you can probably have guessed, Book Three is about Servi's and Momo's promotion quest to go from Rank 10 to 9.  It's about them getting prepared, traveling for three days, delivering the item to Arcton's Warden office, and coming back.  Simple and easy, no? All they have to do is go to Arcton and come back.   Yeah... It doesn't exactly work out that way.  I don't want to spoil it for the people who want to go in blind, so I'll just write some stuff in this spoiler below.  Don't worry, there aren't any major plot spoilers.

In terms of length, it should be shorter than Book Two.

Below is a content warning inside a spoiler of non-spoiler things to expect.  

And here's just a little thing from me.  It sounds super weird, but trust me with the character I made.  I respect them.  

When a certain event happens in Chapter Two or Three, I can't remember, I'm going to put a spoiler showing a certain character's fate and what would happen to them by the end of the Book.  I have a feeling if I don't do that, then I might get some angry messages.  Please, trust me with the characters. 

Release Date: The Prologue will be published anywhere from 7 to 14 days after this update post goes live. It all depends on when I finish project mentioned directly below this sentence. I might take a day or two off for a small break, I don't know yet.  I don't want to keep all of you waiting longer than I need to.

Current Progress: Almost done with Chapter 5.  I'm aiming for ten chapters and four or five interludes.

In The Mean Time

During that week, I wanted to do something I wanted to do for a while now.  I'm going to go back through Book One and separate the chapters into smaller parts.  Because I realized that I, myself, probably wouldn't want to read a giant 14k word chapter in one sitting.  And I'll also re-edit each one and fix the typos and errors to the best of my ability.  So when I do that, I don't know how often you all might be notified, but I hope it doesn't irritate you too much.  I think I learned a lot about writing during Book Two and I want to thank everyone who alerted me to the errors by commenting.

Also, I won't change any major plot or characters when I do the re-edits.  It'll be specifically for grammar and readability only. So no new characters will be added, and none will be deleted.  If possible, I would appreciate it if you all could glance back over it and tell me how I did grammar wise.  I really do want to be a better writer.

And there's one more thing.  I want to thank all of you who've stuck with me for these two books. I love each and every one of you.  I know Book One had to be tough to get through with its massive chapters and many typos, but you stuck with it.

I lied, there's one more thing.  I just want to reiterate that the first prologue that deals with the Lord, the girl, and the coffin is important.  Those characters aren't going to be tossed out and forgotten.  They have a purpose and those three are very important to the story.  But like I said, it's going to be a while before I get to them.

Okay, so I lied again.  As I go through Book One and separate them so it's easier to read, I'll be doing the same for Book Two.  Some of the longer chapters are upwards to 8k words, and I feel like that's too much.

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CURRENT PROGRESS: As of 23 September 2020, I am at Nightly Stroll II Part 4. The lonest part thus far is 4.6k words.  I couldn't really find the best place so split it up.  There will probably be 4 or 5 parts that are over 4k words. I want to be done before October 1st, I kinda want to take a small one to two day break.  I've been editing pretty much in every bit of spare time I have.

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In the future, I'll make sure that parts aren't longer than 4k words while making sure that the max length for an interlude is 6k words. If interlude goes above 6k words, then it will be split into two different parts.  But if some of you feel that's too long, then give me what you think would be the perfect length. And like I said above, I'm not doing a total rewrite.  The plot is going to be the same, the characters are the same.  The only difference is in the length.  

If you can, why not drop by and give them a heart and a view? Maybe a comment? I'd appreciate it. I don't think that's against Scribblehub's rules, but if it is, let me know.

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Potential Ideas

These are just a few ideas that have been swimming around in my head. Both of these would be written in First Person.  I'd like to try my hand again at that.

Birth and Conquest of the True Demon Lord

I have an idea of my own take on a summoned hero being betrayed and actively helping the Demon Lord he was supposed to kill.  Rather, the Demon Lord reaches out and talks to the MC.  She says she can help him if he helps her by freeing her from her seal.

Yeah, sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it?

So, he does so.  As they're walking out from the seal, a trap activates and wipes away all of the power the MC acquired during his journey.  Basically, he's back at level one with all of his items gone.  He skills and magic are wiped away, and he has to learn them over again. This would be where the prologue ends.  A good bit of it is MC learning his Soul Weapon and traversing down a thousand floor dungeon where the Demon Lord is sealed up. 

From here, they wander the world to gain power to destroy the heroes and take their revenge.  It would mostly dark, since the MC would be traumatized by his past.  Unlike Servi, however, he has full knowledge and memories of before he was summoned. It would be dark and depressing for the most part, with a few hints of happiness. In terms of length, it would be way shorter than what I have planned for The Story of a Girl & a God Whose Souls Became Interconnected, but it would still be long.  I have the first book outlined.

His 'cheat ability,' for the lack of a better word, would be his Soul Weapon that every summoned Hero receives.  It reflects the Hero's deepest desire and strength.  Some people receive a sword, others a bow.  One might receive a shield and another a torch.  Maybe a guy who used to be a mechanic is summoned, and his Soul Weapon is a wrench.  The main character's weapon is a gun.  More specifically, a Beretta 92FS.  His weapon would grow and change into different forms, like a shotgun, rifle, machine gun, bazooka, sniper, depending on his level.  When he meets up with the Demon Lord, her power is given to him and his weapon takes on a more deadly approach with spikes and skulls and stuff like that. 

There will be a harem involved, and R-18 elements and LitRPG elements will be abound plenty. Stuff like levels and HP and MP and stuff like that.   For the most part, it'll be him going leveling up his True Demon Lord Skill Tree by doing Demon Lord stuff and gaining power and followers.  More specifically, it'll be doing 'evil' things like stealing, killing, kidnapping, destroying villages, and towns. Taking over castles and slaughtering royalty.  Doing those things will give him bonuses to his stats and eventually unlock new powers that a True Demon Lord would have.  One more thing, he can only level up by killing people.  That's what will give him XP.  He gets XP from monsters, but they're like 1/20th of what he would get if he killed a human or a beastkin(basically demi-humans)

The major plot points would be when he gets his revenge on the other heroes and the countries of the world that did nothing when he was betrayed. 

There's dungeons and bosses and mystical items and LitRPG items and tropes like that.

 

The Life of Sky Konohana - Reincarnator

Yes, it's another isekai.  This time, though, it would be light-hearted, almost like a comedy, and I can't lie, it would be wish-fulfillment to the max. And I'm not going to lie again, it's going to be pretty degenerate, with the taboo of incest coming into play.   

It's about a guy who was killed by Father Time in order to prevent a nuclear world war.  In order to reincarnate, Father Time tells the MC he has to father his reincarnated self.

Yes, you read that right. He is his own daddy.

To sum it up, he ends up sleeping with two Goddess and impregnating them both.  They descend down to the world he wants to be reincarnated in and eventually give birth 9 months later after disguising themselves.  The degenerate part is when the main character realizes he's both the brother and father of his sister.  Because of how he was reincarnated, half of his soul is in his sister and the other half is in him. 

Yeah, I know.  It sounds a bit similar to Servi and Itarr, with how their souls are interconnected.  But this time it's different. I promise.

Part of the first book would be the main character, named Sky Konohana by his 'Mom' and his life growing up in his village and coming to terms wit his new life.  Eventually Sky and his sister Chikyu leave their village and adventure off when they're of age and adventure off into the world.  Their relationship eventually turns incestuous when he tells his sister / daughter the truth of their lineage-- about how he's hers father and brother and she's his daughter and sister. 

Obviously, it's degenerate to the max. I was going for max degeneracy with maybe a little bit of Alabama thrown into the mix.

NOTE: When I was brainstorming this and I didn't have a title, I internally referred to it as the Alabama Isekai. Roll Tide!

Like I said, the book is generally light-hearted and wish-fulfillment to the max (kinda) with a harem thrown in, but there will be some dark moments.  There will be death and pain, and events he's not strong enough to prevent from happening. The MC isn't immortal like Servi, and he doesn't start off super strong and powerful.  He's a little fish in a giant world.

I swear it sounds weird, but sometimes weird is good.  But maybe not this good.  I don't know.  It's just an idea that's flowing around in my head.  

In terms of length, it would be probably about half as long as The Story of a Girl & a God Whose Souls Became Interconnected.  Maybe. I only have the first few chapters outlined.

If I do decide to do another story or two, don't worry.  My main focus is, will, and always be on telling The Story of a Girl & a God Whose Souls Became Interconnected to the utmost of my ability. 

Other Stories

I have some ideas for various short stories that aren't iseaki. 

One of them is about what if a person on Earth was given God's powers? What would they do? It'll probably be super political and deal with the current issues going on in the world at the moment this update comes out.

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The last is about a super advanced and forgotten country rising up from the depths of the Mariana Trench.  It turns out that the MC, a young man working a dead end retail job at some supermarket, is a long lost descendant of the one ruler who escaped from the country and journeyed to the lands above.  The story will about him basically becoming a new king of this super powerful country that has mechs and lazer weapons and super high powered nukes.  Like the above, it'll probably be super political with tons of espionage action as the other countries of the world try to take advantage of the MC. 

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PATREON?!

Eventually, after the project above is finished, I want to launch a patreon.  What I mean by that is that I have all of the details filled out except for tiers.  I don't want to overcharge, but I don't want to undercharge.  Don't get me wrong, I'm not writing for the money.  I love writing! It's just that times are a bit tough. Regardless of how it turns out, I will always write and post my stories.

To be honest, I have very little experience when it comes to pricing things.  I was wondering if I could get help on what would be fair.

I do have some ideas.  I plan to offer advance parts.  Since My chapters are usually long, I'll probably have one of the expensive options be full chapters.  If the chapter happen to be short, like around 5 or 10k words, then I'll probably post two chapters.  Like, one of my upcoming chapters is around 22k words.  At 4k words a part, that's still like a five or six weeks, depending on how I cut it.  I think, hope, people would pay a little bit more to get the whole thing.

Maybe I'll have a tier that can influence the story by designing a character? For example, there's some characters that are pretty important to the story that haven't been introduced yet.  Maybe I'll have a thing on designing minor characters, too? The more expensive one can be on designing major characters, within limits.

Also, it won't be just The Story of a Girl & a God Whose Souls Became Interconnected.  I'll have the other stories in there, too.  

That gives me an idea.  Maybe I'll have a tier that can vote on what story to start first? Either True Demon Lord  or The Life of Sky Konohana.

What do y'all think?

NOTE: Between the time I wrote this and now, I made a patreon.  It's not launched, but here's some screenshots.  I think I might make one more tier that has an exclusive scene, limited to a few thousand words, between any character and any situation? It could be lewd or unlewd, canon or non-canon.  Also, between the time this update goes live, I have fixed the typos in the descriptions.

 

 

 

One more thing: I'll always have chapters and updates on scribblehub and other websites.  Speaking of other websites, I'm planning on posting the revised Book One, Book Two, and upcoming Book Three and beyond on Royal Road.

 

Sidenote: I wanted to launch the Patreon with Book Three, but I don't know if I will.  I wanted to have all five chapters, plus the prologue edited and ready to be posted, but I don't think I will make that date.  

What's After Book Three?

Book Four, duh....

As of right now, in my outline, the plot points of 21 books, not including various side story volumes, are planned.  Of course, that number isn't set in stone and may increase or decrease.  In an earlier comment on a previous chapter, I said that Book One through Book Five is kind of like a prologue.  It's main goal is to set up the relationships between the characters as well as set the general tone for the rest of the series.

Book Six, and it's ending, kicks off the story proper.  The events that occur in this Book sets the stage and lights the dynamite for everything that comes after.  And in a way, Book Six through Book Nine is another arc.

And as for Book Ten, it's going to be the longest one by far considering it's like six Books all packed into one.  The information revealed in it is very important to the over all plot and endgame.

Book Eleven through Book Fourteen is another Arc.

Book Fifteen is its own arc

Book Sixteen through Book Nineteen consists of an Arc.

Book Twenty is currently planned to be in two main sections.  It sounds weird, but I promise it makes sense.

And finally Book Twenty-One is the finale, show casing everything that was built together from the previous Books.  

I do know how the story ends.  It's not written out, but it's outlined.  I don't want to say if it's a sad or happy ending. I'm gonna keep that to myself for the time being.

I know I have a monumental task ahead of me, and it might even be too big, but I'm determined to see it through to the end. 

I have an outline that has every single Book in it's own section, as well as each and major plot point I want to hit.  The main problems is writing in a coherent and organic way to connect the plot points without making my characters seem too robot like.  That's why I put in the restaurant scene in Book Two.  These characters are real to me and they have their own likes and dislikes, fears and beliefs.  Book Two probably could've been 60 or 70 thousands words shorter, but I wanted to make my characters come to life.

Feral, for example, didn't need to be a work at the candy shop, but I think it adds to his charm.  Riki and Rakkire didn't need to have a small section about how the armor and weapons they wield are forged by their fathers and themselves.  It adds some nice detail to them.

That's also why this story is a slow burn.  I have a lot I want to tell and I don't want to cut corners.  In some other stories, being at over 380,000 words would probably have it being somewhat near the end.  If you sum it down, starting from Book One Chapter One, it took around 340,000 words to tell a story that spanned two, two and a half months.  It's kinda surreal to realize I've almost put 400k words into this story.  When I account for the outline, I'm a little bit over 600k words into creating this universe......

I spent a ton of time building up the world and crafting the story I want to tell, and I only hope I can grow enough as an author to actually tell it in a way that it deserves to be told.  I know there hasn't been that much world-building.  I'm actually kinda inexperienced in that regard, but I promise to do my best.

I do hope you all will join me as I tell The Story of a Girl & a God Whose Souls Became Interconnected. (and other stories if I decide to one or two more...)

 

And finally, a poll! Who is your favorite character so far?

 

I have been RuggyRuggy, and I want to tremendously thank each and every one of you.  I never thought that, at the time of writing this, I would ever have over 70,000 views.  It's just incredible, and I actually cried that night when I found out. It's almost unreal.  And sometimes I still think I'm dreaming.