There will be no chapter tomorrow (Friday). My mom is having some bad medical issues so I will take a day off to look after her. Hope you all have a good weekend and sorry for the late notice.
Thank you all for following my story even through the not-so-good parts I never thought it would be as successful as it is now. I've tried several things and some of them fell on its face, mostly due to my experience as a writer but through my failure, I have gotten better and I will continue to do so.
I am currently updating the earlier chapters and will aim to do around five chapters on the weekend, but this should still be counted as a rough draft and not a finished and polished story. I plan to rewrite this story one day when I have gotten better and have a clearer vision for this story. Unneeded fat will be trimmed, pacing will be fixed, and hopefully, I can salvage some things I did not do so well on; but that's all for later, not the current updates.
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Hope everything takes a turn for the better soon. No worries on the releases.
Very much so. I too pray in favor of her future health.
I am currently updating the earlier chapters and will aim to do around five chapters on the weekend, but this should still be counted as a rough draft and not a finished and polished story. I plan to rewrite this story one day when I have gotten better and have a clearer vision for this story.
@, I beg you not to change anything in your story, I love it the way it is, but I won’t love it the way you make it, because it will be a different story, not the one I read.
If you really want to start writing again, then please do it in a separate work, and just leave my favorite Alysara as it is.
The rewrite will be separate. the update I am currently doing won't change anything major, mostly descriptive stuff and fixing potential plotholes.
@Comiak
update I am currently doing won't change anything major, mostly descriptive stuff and fixing potential plotholes.
You don't need to change this either, how do you know why and why your story is loved (certainly not because it is true as a document of a boring lawyer)
@Comiak
Love your work. The details you put in to the framework of the system is amazing. The skills breakthroughs being split in half action and knowledge levels is superb. Your attention to what every breakthrough represents of each skill you went in depth with is.....you are making something new and it is amazing. I give high praise for just about everything.
I don't know if this is one of your plotholes, or there was a reason for it, but Alyssaras corrupted mana manipulation skill got pretty high. High enough that it normally would've already earned a legendary point, right?
Anyway, I hope you will be satisfied with your rewrite. We have certainly enjoyed Alyssara's current journey thoroughly.
Please, never feel as if you have done a bad job. Your drive to improve what is --arguably by many-- already a very good, interesting, and investing novel is superb. We hope to see how much better this already fascinating story will become after.
I hope the best for your mom. Y'all take care and hope to hear positive news from you in the future.
@Comiak I get it. Not as a reader, but as a fellow author. If you want to rewrite this to satisfy that ‘itch’ go ahead, I’ll read it if you want or you can just write it for no-one to read. Your choice. But as a reader, your book is beautiful. The mistakes are negligible and no book is perfect… you don’t need to edit it once more but if you want to? Go ahead. Just like always, us readers will support you.
@IllOmened Actually that’s not a plot hole. Main reason is because her ancestor already got Mana Manipulation to an ‘unparalleled mastery’. So, Alysara would have to get an even higher level.
@torvn77 Comparing Comiak rework to his original work shows a major improvement.
@Hattmanhendrix to compare, one would need to know which are updated/what changes are made... not seeing a summary section on discord lol
@IllOmened
We hope to see how much better this already fascinating story will become after.
When I was young, I was a little fond of painting and I have only one experience left from this hobby: you need to be able to stop in time, after reaching the peak of beauty, further improvements spoil, not improve the picture.
@torvn77 Agreed.
@kaithar Chapters 0 through 4.
@torvn77 While I do rather like this story as I originally read it, we shouldn't be too eager to reject the possibility of making it better. At the most basic level, we enjoy the way chapters are currently written and how the plot is progressing, so if we think of the tweaks as leaving the early chapters "at the same quality and style as recent chapters" then we shouldn't have anything to worry about.
@kaithar The author decided to write this novel again as a new separate work, maybe it would be better if he makes all the updates there, and leaves this work as it is?
@torvn77 To clarify I'm not doing the rework yet. What I am doing is adding more to the early chapters, fixing flow issues, and polishing the chapters to bring their quality up.
and polishing the chapters to ...
@Comiak I'm afraid that you can spoil everything with this "polishing". There is such a term as "slickness", this is what happens with works that have been worked too hard.
@torvn77
You can truly stop now. This isn't your novel. This is @Comiak 's work and it is their decision to do what they will of it. Stop trying to force the author to do something your way while you disguise your intent as your opinion.
If you don't like what the author is doing then shove off somewhere else.
@IllOmened
And I mean this for everyone else as well that thinks their opinion is greater than the opinion of the very person who wrote this novel.
@kaithar
Thank you for being a rational and wise individual.
@Hattmanhendrix
Thanks for the info!
@IllOmened
No problem!
@torvn77 I do agree with the principle of your point. That said, Comiak’s revised chapters are a substantial improvement.
@Comiak Glad to see you believe you can improve! I’ll be awaiting the improvements with a smile.
That said, if it ever gets too much, just send me a dm or something and I’ll help wherever I can! Editing is not my strong suit but I can do it for free.
@IllOmened Flattery will get you +1 on your post count and this cookie