Actually an Anniversary · 10:21pm Nov 2nd, 2023
So as of today, it has been ten years to the day since I first published Ducenti Septuaginta Septem, or CCLXXVII for short. Though, if you really want brevity, you could also go with DSS or 277.
Anyways, I won't be doing much navel-gazing and nostalgia-bathing for this one; the last blog post should probably be enough of that for another ten years. 
Back in July, I announced my intentions of doing a big re-editing of the chapters published so far, where I try and polish the writing on a technical level without really touching the story itself.
I have been working on just that, and by reflecting on my writing with a bit more distance and a different perspective, I think I have been learning quite a bit about what I have been doing (and doing wrong) in my writing, and also hopefully how to do better.
However, it turned out that next to the basics of spelling, punctuation and picking the correct dashes, there's also quite a bit more stylistic improvements to be made than I originally thought. As a result, this little re-editing project is going to run a little longer than anticipated.
I so far updated the prologue (which has gained almost a hundred words in the process), and I will do the same for the entire first part of the story over the next week. More details on that will follow in a blog post next week then part one is fully re-edited.
For the chapters of the second part, I am a little unsure. In particular, I am considering a more in-depth rewrite of chapter eleven, which would take a fair bit of extra time. Either way, the rest of the finished chapters of part two would have to wait until chapter eleven has been revised.
The plan is to wrap the big revision of 2023 up by the end of the year and then try to publish a new chapter early next years.
Anyways, thanks for your patience. 
I hope you don't find my slowness half as frustrating as I do. Have a nice day, everyone!
P.S.: I just realized I went through the trouble of introducing the shorthand CCLXXVII without actually using it in my blog post. Yay, planning. Go, me. 
