Today... Is the day. · 1:09am Aug 15th, 2018
The last time I uploaded a new chapter for A World Apart was just a month under 3 years ago.
But today...
After all that time, and one heck of a set of life experiences I can scarcely even remember all of or in order,
That's going to change.
This feels extremely significant to me. It's something I've put a tremendous amount of passion, soul and work into.
Not to get a little too personal, but I had a moment where I really thought I might die, and I wondered what that would really mean - what I wouldn't live to do. I'm getting a degree in physics, but my thought, oddly enough, wasn't "oh no, I won't be able to discover the secrets of the universe or work on breakthrough technology" or anything like that, like I thought it would be.
No, my thought was "If I die, I won't be able to tell that story. Those characters and their lives will be lost forever, and untold."
Well, now I'm finally telling that story again, and prepared to do it on a weekly basis.
It may take some hours to get things reorganized or some minutes, but tonight I plan to submit the prologue of the rewrite.
The inciting event is totally different, and there are many notable differences in the story, but the setting, characters and overarching story are largely the same.
I feel like improvement as a writer is generally something like a logarithmic curve - right near the start, you improve drastically, and while it's true that with a huge project like this, I'll certainly be better by the time I'm finished, the difference won't be quite so drastic, and the starting won't be nearly as frankly bad.
So I'm not going to do anything stupid like rewrite it again - I'm committing to this, and committing to making a regular schedule of getting a new chapter out every Monday night. I'm starting tonight (I know it's Tuesday, hah) because in my last blog post I said I'd start releasing either last month or early this one. Well, it's hard to say it's "early" August if it's the 15th, isn't it? So 14th it is.
Anyways, enough rambling, I'm off to do what I should've done a long time ago...
