An editing partner and a new chapter. · 5:23pm Sep 1st, 2015
Wanted to mention a couple of important things today, but the most important to me is to say that the resourceful, educated, talented and illustrious Fana Farouche has joined me on Deathless, and is now working tirelessly with me behind the scenes to catch as many of my fumbles and correct as many of my bad decisions as is humanly, or even ponily, possible. I've really enjoyed working with Fana on whipping the story into shape so far, and I hope everyone will enjoy the results now that the Quality has been Doubled!*
A new chapter's going up either today or tomorrow, and Fana and I are wrangling final edits today. As of right now I plan to keep to a semi-weekly release schedule. Wish us luck 
One thing I want to make clear to anyone who's reading: Deathless will be completed. I know, big words for a zero-track-record author with one story and a bunch of early downvotes. You have only my word that I've finished novels before, but you do, in fact, have it. I say this most especially to everyone who upvoted and/or faved Deathless despite my complete lack of history on the site. Your vote of confidence in the story is humbling and inspiring, and so long as there's a handful of people still enjoying the ride, we'll keep driving until we get to the end of the road.
*Estimate only. Princess Luna is not to be relied on as a sole benchmark for literary quality. Remaining errors are the sole responsibility of the writer. Your results may vary. Critiques in mirror are closer than they appear.
It's freeing, isn't it. Unfortunately it doesn't always last.
Speaking of which, do you think your editor, uh, would be willing to take a look at the prologue? I agree with you that most of these early downvotes are probably on principle rather than any kind of reaction to the story itself (I would not be amazed if half the downvoters didn't even open the page), but I also think it's not helping you as much as it could be. It's long, heavy-going, and massively different from chapter 1, and I don't think it earns the right to be any of those things on its own merits as it is now.
3363248 Your 'profile pic'/avatar, whatever we're calling them these days. I want to say Beckett, but I'm pretty sure I'm wrong. could you elaborate?
3363443 Tom Waits, a craggy old alt blues badass with a voice somewhere between Howlin' Wolf and the devil out of Hell. He's also got a lot of storytelling abilities I aspire to. He's kind of an apostle of Bob Dylan in that way, though less so since the 80's when he lost his mind or something and started 1. relying more on weird instruments nobody has heard of (did you know there used to be a kind of analogue synthesizer?! edit: I guess it's called a trautonium) 2. going hard on the percussion and 3. telling crazy stories about, for example, a post-apocalyptic colosseum, or rum-running in the Deep South, or Lewis Carroll's obsession with Alice Liddell.
Pre-80's he was more like a weirder, more gravelly Bruce Springsteen. Fun fact, Heath Ledger's Joker voice was based on how Waits used to sound in interviews when he was in his 20's.
If it wasn't clear, my love for Tom Waits goes beyond all reason.
3363248 It IS freeing. You're absolutely right about that prologue, though; what I was going for was not what it translated to, and the result is what it is right now. Fana's had some ultra solid ideas on that very topic, and as soon as the next chap goes up I'll noodle with my co-conspirator and see what he thinks about stealing some cycles to take the sandblaster to it.
In case it's not clear, I enjoy having you two around. Folks who don't candy-coat things are my favorite kinds of people. I might even have to give Tom Waits another listen on general principles.
3363906 Having an editor to lean on is so great.
Glad to hear I'm helping. In this whole writing thing, it's so easy to tear someone down when you're only trying to help. I wouldn't be putting critiques out there if I didn't like the story so far.