If Our Thoughts Mattered

Author's Notes/Disclaimers [ UPDATED ]

Hello, a lot of disclaimers but it won't take long.

Funny things to note:

No, the titans in the story are not a re-imagining of AOT or Attack On Titan. Though, their looks and concept are inspired from the manga series.

Yes, there is another language in the story. Anglo-Saxon or Old English. The translation I had done from modern English to Old English is most likely poor. But, I will learn more on the language, and hopefully change it to be the most accurate as I can get it. :)

No, I am not one of those writers who say "I have never written a story before and my first language is not English :( so please be kind on me" and they write one of the most innovative and creative masterpieces known to wattpad. English is my first language and I could use some tips on better writing! That would be appreciated :)
I will work hard to create an interesting story that will have you on the edge of your seat.

For now, please enjoy the draft.

Some notings:

This is also my first time using Wattpad. So, if it's formatted weird, again, please be patient with me. Thanks!!
[ I started this because I wanted to end up with the same fate as Chole Gong and her book "These Violent Delights" later in the future! ]

The story is written with Shakespearean English for dialogue. If you cannot easily translate some words, please just scroll down and read its simple definition that I will write in the footnotes for ease of understanding. Also note that I am not fluent in this form of speech, so if you see anything wrong that you think I should fix, please comment or dm me. :)

This is an ongoing draft of a story I am thinking to complete. So, There will be frequent changes or updates to the storyline or fragments of the text/dialogue.

The storyline is also somewhat of a thriller, so if you cringe to gore or death or anything of that assort; This future novel series is not for you. :')

Another note, please understand the format of the "book" may be a little wrong or my English grammar [ or vocabulary :') ] may not make sense. I need to study and review on those. So, please don't mind it for now.

ALSO IMPORTANT:

This has some scrapes of historical accuracy. Though, please note that this "book" as a whole, is not even close to a little historically accurate. It is simply Sci-fi, or as I like to refer to it, speculative fiction as it asks and creatively answers a "what if?" question.

AUTHOR'S NOTES

Updated: 3/14/22 12:27pm

I went back into the story and updated some text to make it a little more suspenseful(still working on some parts), and a little more historically accurate or just accurate in general. Such as changing the oil to flammable tar, since that would be more accessible during that time. I added some passages where I explained the historical difference between our modern time, the paleolithic era, the neolithic era, and how it agrees and disagrees with my "book" (I put it in quotes as it is not a book yet).

I turned from the jumpy plot idea to an actually planned storyline because that type of loose writing wouldn't fly if I was an unpopular, not really well known writer (yeah... that's me), that would definitely not benefit from a quick story and an overused moral to tie it up. I think with popular writers/authors such as Stephen King could probably write about murdering unicorns and still get positive news coverage, I am not discerditing his writing, just the fact that if your popular you can do just about anything and people wouldn't care. (I mean BTS could write a song in English about wanting to lick a shoe and their fans would go wild. - a former BTS stan)

I did feel a tad embarrassed reading over some of my text seeing it poorly written or with a lot of mistakes.

I also feel like I didn't make it clear enough that the setting was the late Upper Paleolithic Era where things were warming up for the Neolithic Era. Or the fact that the climate was cold there in Upper Europe (Kostienki is a real cave in the country of Russia). I don't know if it was just cold and frosty or actually had snowy, but I took the snow route as it would be more interesting.

Thanks for reading these disclaimers and please enjoy your time reading "If Our Thoughts Mattered" draft.
- Anatoly Tay