Awakening: Prodigy

Author's Note: A whole new version & who I'm writing for

Welcome to the Awakening. There are some major changes coming down the pipeline that I'm super excited about.

For the past year, I've been overhauling the Awakening. Not because it was bad (despite what the back seat editors might say about my sentence structure and grasp of rudimentary grammar). But rather... how do I explain this?

Awakening: Prodigy had a lot of periods where I had oodles of time to dive into the work and get the writing done. But it also had periods where I was often working two jobs, leaving me exhausted physically and creatively for months on end. In a nut shell, there was a lot of starts and sudden stops. 

These interruptions were both good and bad. Bad in the sense that my writing progress stagnated. Good in the sense that I had time to think and refine my approach to how I wrote chapters and scenes. The down time helped me really hone in on my character's perspectives. 

But as I've often said: Writing shouldn't be done in a vacuum. Yes, I'm writing for people like myself first and foremost. Al, Kyla, Cynara, to name a few who like worldbuilding, introspective characters, and multi-layered storylines.

As an old school die hard reader myself, the internet age of fiction is the best of time and the worst of times. These days I find myself spoiled with the vastness of options. But on the flip side, I'm also super frustrated that despite the wealth of reading material, I'm really struggling to find something... more. 

More means different things for different people, for different reasons. In no way am I saying that the fiction I found is bad. It can be, sure. But mostly, some of the better fiction I've read left me wanting more than what they were offering. That's on me as a reader, and not at all the fault of the writer. I hope that they wrote something that pleased them.

Which brings this back around to: I wrote Awakening with readers like me in mind. The type of readers who want more out of the characters. Who don't want to sum up MCs into stereotypes, who don't want to sum up a story in one sentence, whose tropes aren't the same old reruns we've all seen in today's entertainment. 

I strive to do something different, but not too different. After all there is no such thing as an original story, and there hasn't been in centuries. 

Over the past year, I've been working on re-writing Awakening. I had wanted to wait until I finished book 2 of the Awakening before doing the re-write, but that wasn't in the cards. 

All of the old chapters have been removed from Wattpad, and replacing them on a weekly basis will be the re-written 4th draft version of the story.