Feathered Hearts C&C part 26 in prereads; will launch this weekend · 6:57pm Mar 31st, 2022
It’s currently coming in at just shy of 11k words and will probably end up being around 12k, once all editing passes are complete and it’s been fleshed out just a little bit more. For all the trouble writing this gave me at times—it’s the first Feathered Hearts battle scene where I wasn’t working directly from one in the original story and had to come up with it completely from scratch, including inventing a new pure Cloven form and determining how they would use corrupted Ibex—it seems to have jelled nicely at the end.
Likely release day is Saturday morning. Unless, that is, I’m feeling particularly frisky, in which case I’ll try making some graphics for the new chapter in Photoshop to show battle progression ala Firefly. But that will delay its release until Sunday or Monday, given I’ll have to make brand new icons for human, Cloven and griffon units as well as a base map showing the steadholt of Bale and its layout.
I’ll think about it. I know readers appreciate those graphics in Firefly given they make it far easier to follow the course of a battle, but you also have to understand that’s a LOT of work involving many hours sitting in front of my desk with a pad and stylus. Regardless, I think readers will enjoy the fast and suspenseful combat scenes that will consume the first 75% of the chapter.
It will end with what I hope will be a fanservice moment involving everyone’s favorite earth griffon, while the remainder will be given over to our heroes planning an Ibex-enabled escape to the next steadholt in line towards Aricia. To that end, our new Ibexian friends will figure prominently in the final section, and for the first time, you’ll learn their perspective on humanity and just why they’ve launched these operations despite the danger of war.
Thanks for your patience, folks. And I ask that readers of Harmonic Resonance be patient in turn. My clop batteries seem depleted at the moment and need a jump start following my illness. I’ll try to provide it this weekend and aim to have a finished draft by next.
I just finished my pass. Looks great to me! Creating a map would be cool but don't burn yourself out too much! Those maps take forever to make.
I'll look for the notification!
Sweeeeeet!
Looking forward to it!
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It’s already posted! Went live this past weekend. Enjoy!
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Will do! I've got a number of things to do today, but as soon as they're out of my hair, I'm on this!