Sapphire of Night story updates and rambles

moving from 2022 to 2023

So I didn't fully make some of my goals

I still have refs to make, family trees to make, Fading Light has been started but not finished

I did get most of the female refs done that are needed, I just have a few ancients/randoms and Scouts family tree (plus actual refs for last minute kitters) then otherwise it's mostly just tom's left

As for Family trees I did find a slightly easier way to do them but it requires refs to be done, probs need to slightly redo them by the 3rd draft of the BDS

Speaking of a 3rd draft, yes there will be a 3rd one.. I am going to tweak the 2nd draft where I can get away with it, but otherwise there's going to be some fresh content like spoilers "What if we got to see some of Ash's leadership" because I think will be interesting to see and it will hopefully help the whole Soot becoming leader situation smooth out, have some characters show up sooner (mention Storm and Star's siblings).

-Downside I need to make the cast bigger because really the only cats (with few exceptions) that are having kittens are related to Slade or Todd/Ash (which one branch of is also Slade's) and I want the Black Dawn Series to somewhat follow a couple of generations which means I need more characters that are not related, so Frost's kits which I wiped out of existence get to exist with randoms, might even give Shay an older litter, not sure if Thorn will gain any extra kits but randoms will form out of nothing, Wren might gain kits.. All groups but maybe Cliff Valley will gain more members

Another note which requires the full cast list of book 2 3rd draft is an au which I have named "Rouge Heart"

Might do some other Au's like what if Crystal and Shatterednight actually talked and Crystal needed to lie or something to protect her & Stone's kits (because guess what long as they don't have cream and you ignore the fact all of Shatterednight's kits are huge Shatterednight could pass as the father) it would be a what if Crystal became preggers sooner or if the fall happened a bit later

There is always the au of what if Duke succeeded in reviving through Shatterednight or if the Fall failed and Falcon remained leader and decided to take revenge on Shadow Forest or what if he went after the Shadow Forest before the Fall.. Some of those themes would go in line with Rouge Heart...

So here is what I hope to achieve in 2023 Project wise

Finish 2nd draft ref sheets

Map more family trees or even do partial ones just to help give a better idea of families

Finish Fading Light

Storyboard the 3rd draft and make a rough story guide where I list a few plot points for each of the books in the following series to give me an idea of where the story should hopefully head because I do try to foreshadow stuff for the following series

Make a rough character list and maybe find someone to help me go over ideas for the 3rd series and characters

Write oneshots, prequels and maybe au's (at very least rough storyboards for longer au's and prequels)

Concept art (maybe practice humans and human structures because Price of Peace)

Work on Price of Peace, get at least through the rough introductions to certain characters (maybe ask for tips to make Peter come off as cold when he first shows up cuz he's a workaholic stressed by the many deaths of his wife's family)

Stuff IRL

Keep up with college work (I be starting college late Jan.)

Try to socialize a little more

Complete some of my games that are story based (also read a little more)

Drivers license??? (not confident on it and I do frankly find driving a tad scary and very stressful..My lack of sense of direction does nothing to help me and adds to my internal panic, also my eyesight isn't the best, also being short makes reaching petals harder)

That's about it, my main plan is to focus on college and work on BDS when I can

Also I am open to au ideas long as its something that doesn't change with the drafts and I am also open to writing oneshots so feel free to suggest stuff and maybe something will come of it because sometimes I have no idea what to write for oneshots and a chunk of my au ideas are kinda long

Either way have a happy new year