Children Of The Sky (The Scripts Of Neptune, Book 2)

Author's Note

Well howdy, y'all! It appears you've made it to the end of this beautiful mess of a draft, and for that I give you congratulations. It was a scattered, crazy, emotional journey pocked with random bursts of inspiration and stretches of no motivation whatsoever...but we made it. The end of my second novel.

Though I could only tell you an approximate page count, this book rang in at 218,781 words. Shorter than the first...but only by about 30k words. Which is the size of a small book. But details. Publishers are gonna hate me. A lot.

I have many, many people to thank for making it this far, including my readership at large (thanks for those of you who stuck with me through incredibly sporadic updating, ha), but I'll name a few who helped me immensely. Thank you to Sara, who has been and is a very dear friend and writer buddy, and who was quite possibly the only person who consistently stuck with this draft (and told it to me straight when I screwed up the timeline and pacing...which still need fixing.) Snow, Jay, Carter, Tar, Winter, Ranger, and Bee were also fantastically amazing, and I applaud all of you for following along even when I didn't write for like...two months? I think it was two months. Might've been longer. Y'all helped me through word wars, general conversation, worldbuilding, freaking out about characters, and most of all just reading in general. It is a precious thing to have one's creation appreciated by others, so thank you for that and your friendship above all.

I do have some announcements about this series, so mushy stuff aside, listen up, folks. I mentioned in an updated author's note in the first book that I will be rewriting that same first book, and because of that, I've decided not to write the third or fourth books until I've completed the rewrites of both The Amulet of Nicmir and Children of the Sky. There is a great deal to be improved upon in both of them, especially considering they're the first drafts of my first two completed novels ever (and I began writing the first when I was only fifteen.) My writing has improved greatly, as has my affinity for creating characters and believable worlds, so...yeah. Good things will come from rewriting rather than moving on. I'm unspeakably excited to refashion and revise and refine these stories that have been set in my heart and mind and make them the best they can be.

That being said, I can't 100% guarantee that this book will remain on Wattpad. It needs a lot of work in terms of pacing before I'm even comfortable calling this draft completed (namely lining the different viewpoints up so I don't lob massive chunks of one or two POVs together before skipping to the next), so I may temporarily remove it and repost it. I also might not, but we'll see. I'll let you know before I do anything rash.

Anyways. This is getting long now, so I shall end it here. Thank you again for reading, and I look forward to seeing where this endeavor leads me in the future. Happy New Year!

Plotting brilliant and terrible things,

Batman