Into the Storm has been reorganized, plus update on Feathered Heart · 7:01pm Feb 7th, 2021
Just wanted to let everyone know that Into the Storm has been reorganized into a magnum opus containing several discrete stories as opposed to a single enormous one. The story page and chapter names have been updated to reflect this, with the former now given subheadings that describe the individual stories, while the latter reflects their place in the individual story they're a part of.
Why? Well, as I discussed with some commenters in earlier blog posts, I decided this was the solution to the issue of not being able to break up the story into smaller chunks without losing readership and like counts due to the Fimfiction sequel curse. So Into the Storm now consists of three stories, with two already finished and the third in progress. And when that story ends, I'll simply start a fourth one.
The current story names are The War Begins, Rally and Recover, and Second Offensive, in that order.
Note the order of chapters themselves has not changed (with the exception of moving the appendix to after the first story and before the second), but my hope is that this provides readers with a digestible series of smaller stories instead of a single unwieldy one, with the stories breaking at climactic points, like the final Battle of Epsilon and Gavian's epic duel with Thunderbolt. I've also done at least a little retconning of story ending/beginning chapter to reflect the break. Can't promise there won't be more retcons later.
I'll also be posting a new chapter soon, but don't get too excited--it'll be a new Appendix to provide more of a breakpoint between the second and third stories. It'll consist of the unit icons I'm using for my graphics, to provide a ready reference for anyone who needs them. It should be up in a day or two. Thanks for your indulgence.
As for everybody's favorite modern Griffon/US Marine military crossover fic, I'm now five chapters into Feathered Heart edits, and I'm leaning more and more towards posting it as a new story, as I think the updated chapters are different enough. But only if the mods agree. If they do, you'll be seeing a new story on my account within a week or so. More on that later.
Do these retcons affect the story enough that one might have to reread the story? Feathered Heart is on my TRL list.
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Nope. I’m not changing any of the major Feathered Heart plot points or story progression. Just heavily editing/expanding the existing stuff for the most part to incorporate new lore that wasn’t around when he initially wrote the story nine years ago. It may mean different dialogue or extra detail or even alternate explanations in some cases, but the intention is to write the continuation so it’ll fit either version of the story.
So by all means, read the original. In fact, I strongly encourage you to do so. It’s a superb early-fandom story from the heyday of the Gentlemanverse. The greatest praise I can give it is this: it’s a story concept that should not work—a modern day griffon/US military crossover thriller set in the Gentlemanverse with Gilda as its main protagonist—but thanks to its original author, it very much does. And when you’re done with it, you can decide whether give my coming edited and expanded version a read.
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What about the retcons for Firefly?
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Oh. No, they don’t affect it at all.
This is a good solution. And I look forward to covering your work... when I get to it. I just have to get this story I'm working on out of me!
That is a very satisfying Story > Sub-story > Chapter structure to look at.
Love the new organization! Looks great!