《Swarm: A post-apocalypse urban fantasy story》Post-authorship observations
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To everyone that has read this far, thank you for your interest, and I hope you enjoyed the work.
This was a first for me. While I have written works in the past, this was the first I had attempted to publish live, without a real plan in place beforehand other than a very rough outline. As I wrote the story, new ideas came along, old ideas were discarded, and a whole perspective change took place. It has been a learning experience for me, and one of the most important lessons I think I've learned from this is to make sure I have a solid outline, but more importantly, the world-building aspects need to be planned ahead of time, long before I put fingers to keyboard.
I may go back and edit some chapters to clarify or correct some story elements to make them more consistent, but this isn't a priority for me at the moment. Every story I write is a character driven story, and I always focus more on how people grow and change over the course of a story. There is much I can say about this, some of it in response to criticisms in the comments, but in the end, while some authors like to focus on spreadsheeting their way into a story, I just like to breathe life into the people who exist in the worlds I create.
I do plan on writing a sequel to this, because Rick's tale is not yet done. He still has to find out the connection between the Harvesters and the breeding facilities (and I already have some ideas about the nature of this connection), and we haven't seen the last of many of the characters in the story, either. Once I have a solid story plan, I'll begin writing chapters. As was the case here, I will post on a schedule for consistency, well in advance to allow for any slowdowns and changes that may inevitably come up.
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My next project is going to be something set in the multiverse, involving portals. I'm aware that there are already stories like this out there, but I have a few ideas I'd like to explore. In addition to this, I also plan on taking a book in the Alliance Chronicles Universe (the first book I published here was Book 2 in the series) and re-posting it here, in preparation for when I start writing Book 3 in the series (that particular series is intended to have 5 books in total, most of the planning work has already been done).
Once again, thanks for reading, and feel free to leave comments or questions.
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8 121Ancient Mana Dungeon Core.
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❝ I'm in love with you, Baek. ❞
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