Author Rant:

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That’s book number one. Finally, it’s over.

Normally, I would say this is it guys; the book has no chance of growth so I’m dropping the series.

Don’t worry; I plan to continue it, just to see if I can write past the beginning. The book actually has no growth potential, but meh… at least that means I can take it easy.

Now, let’s talk about the book:

The book started as a back-story of another series. I dropped that after one arc because I couldn’t see what the world looked like. I first finished other books I had started, then started thinking about this story. And the more I thought, wondered, pondered, the better I found it.

At that point, I had just finished writing Re: Ant and Dogz, both failures in terms of popularity and dropped for the same reason, but they taught me a lot about plot and character interactions. The two books also taught me that I’m a much better writer in the first person. Ha-ha.

If you have read those two then you know I don’t like conventional storytelling much. I don’t want to write about a character learning in school or leveling in a dungeon.

I had one objective when I set out to write this book. I wanted the characters to stay in the village since there are very few or no such stories on the scene.

I call it going against the grain. I think about the easy way out through a situation then go against it. Unfortunately, there are not many people who want to read about scenarios they haven’t seen before.

That’s it.

Onto the plot:

I don’t know how many of you noticed, but the forces of good and evil, or mana and miasma are represented in the book through the two mothers, who are also friends.

Mannat’s mother, Noor, sacrificed herself for her son, representing the good.

Gande, opposite her, represented greed by making a deal with the Witch and raising her son back from the dead instead of letting him go because she wasn’t ready to let him go.

I only wish I hadn’t pulled Little butcher out of the story right in the beginning. He was supposed to be the antagonist to keep the tension high at the start, but for some reason, to reach the end I guess, he was given a disability and shoved into the store.

(Funny story: there is a chapter where I named him, but I don’t remember which one, so I opted to keep calling him LB.)

There was no character called Sharmilla when I created the outline. It was when I was thinking about how to play out the Sardar’s scenario that I decided it would help if Mannat was in relation with his girl. I think that spiraled everything in the right direction. Because there were no demonic rabbits in the outline either.

The old man was supposed to ask for the Witch’s help for crop reasons. I was thinking of poisoning the pond somehow and make Pathar (the fisherman) spread disease in the village. Things changed during the writing and I’m happy they did.

I don’t have much else to say. Other than that, I hope the epilogue makes you think where you might have read those things before. Hmm. I’m basically telling you all the Witch’s past. I know it’s been a long time since it was first mentioned, but I hope you figure it out.

I wish people discussed the story, but there are too few readers for that.

Anyways, that’s it, folks. I hope you enjoyed the book.

The second one will begin next week or next month. I’ll let you all know next Tuesday. I’ll delay it until I have drafted the first arc. Second, one will be bigger than the first. It might even reach 300K words since I’m thinking of including the Witch’s past in it. That was the reason I mentioned it in the Epilogue.

See you next week, hopefully.