The completion of the first draft of a story is always an odd experience for me. It is this feeling of elation mixed with a bit of nausea when I realize that the first draft is generally what one may politely call...rough. Impolitely, it could be called many things far worse.
The Dreaming Sea's tale is there, on paper, ready for me to review then slice and dice and build upon. I shudder in horror if someone were to read this and expect a complete story. When I make a first draft it is an experimental playground. I will frequently switch POV, to see which character works best to tell the story from. I may shift the tone of the story around a bit to see what works best for delivering the story. It's a mad jumble before I put it on the forge and hammer it out...but it's there.
Time to take a couple of weeks to clear my head and take care of a few other things around here so I can get in the mind space necessary for sculpting something beautiful from this muddy puddle. It will get there, and I will offer as many updates as I can over the coming months. This will likely NOT be the final pass at this story so the release window has been pushed back to sometime in mid 2022. Sorry to disappoint but that's how it goes when one aspires for something worthy of my readers' attention.
Hope everyone has a great transition into Autumn here in the northern hemisphere. Looking forward to dragging more of this tale into the light in the coming months.
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