Update #5: Been a While!

3/28/25

Hey y'all,

It's been a while! I've been busy moving back to the U.S.

But now I'm back and working on figuring out things from here. My schedules been pretty off for the last couple days, but I'm trying to get work done. I hope I don't need to move my publishing date by this point.

Essentially I have about 9 chapters left to edit/finalize. I need to write the final chapter and epilogue, but they shouldn't be too long or difficult. However, the last chapter has a bit of a important fight scene so that could take some time.

I need to balance my schedule now going forward, but it's hard with my body working on a different time. The first few days here were fine, but today I was a bit off. I'm just trying not to oversleep, or get sick. Neither of those would help me.

My space is a bit different now to, which can throw me off. I think it's pretty comfortable now, but I expect bigger changes coming up. The publishing process should give me some time to breathe though. Then I'll start of Foundations II, and have four months to get it done, plenty of time. Right?

I may try to take inspiration from Foundations final fight against the Maer. That was one well-written part of the book and I think this fight should feel "similar".

Otherwise, I hope everything is on good course. The chapters I'm editing right now are a bit longer, so I'll have to force myself to get one done at a time. But I'm cutting down a ton of words. I was worried the book would be 85,000+ words, but now it might be under. I've edited it down to around 78,000. I doubt the last chapter + epilogue will bring it all to 85,000 but who knows right now! Editing will probably cut the story down a bit more too.

I believe this is all positive news, it feels like editing with fresh eyes. But I'm also a bit unaccustomed to it right now, so I'm editing more or thinking over wording a bit too much. It'll all work out for the best I'm sure!

That's the update for now! (As a reminder, I won't typically upload concept art with this updates, so that's why it's missing.)

Stay tuned for more updates, I need to make them more regular anyway. (Maybe I could return to old-form and upload something once a week, at least an update, even if it was just a few paragrpahs.)

Signing off!