《Fury: Chronicles of the Titanomachy》Fury: Afterword
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This story was one I really loved writing. As an author, some stories take a piece of your soul with every word. Other stories rip at your guts. Some are great stories but are a chore to put on paper. Then you get the odd story that is an absolute blast to write. This was one of those stories for me. It is a sword-and-sandals tale written in the first person perspective. It has blood and guts, graphic violence and graphic sex. All of these are things I rarely write, so were an exercise in stretching my own limits.
I had failures that I recognized too late to fix, such as the poor characterizations of the main characters. I failed to do a good job of making them sympathetic to the reader, or really making them terribly interesting. I tried to fix it when I figured it out, but I was a good halfway through the whole thing at that point, so it was a bit too late in the game. I struggled with what was turning out to be an epic story, that was trapped in two viewpoints.
So I learned a lot from the writing of this. I learned that I needed to work on my characterizations more. I learned that if I'm writing an epic story, I cannot trap myself in one or two people's perspective, but need to pull the camera back a bit. But I also learned a lot about what I found fun to write, and that I can hopefully apply it in my other stories.
But for the Titanomachy books, I need some feedback. I need to know if I should continue the series at all. I need to know if I should switch to the 3rd-person perspective if I do, or if I should just tough it out since I've already written the first book. I could also use as much feedback as people are willing to throw in the comments - good and bad. What did you like? What did you hate? What did I screw up but it was still ok to read?
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I will need to see a lot of interest for this story to be worth continuing. I have a limited amount of time and a lot of stories to write. So I leave it to you, dear reader.
Thank you to everyone who has read this, and has stuck it out to the end. You are why I write.
EDIT: Thanks to everyone who has provided such immensely helpful feedback! I'm taking your comments to heart, and Volume 2 will be a better work because of it.
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