PART 1
WARNING: This is a long and depressing read.
After a very uneventful 2016 for my books, (I haven't written, edited or uploaded a single thing) I've been thinking a lot about the Captain Justice series and what I want to do with it. After a pretty long internal discussion, I've decided that I'm going to reboot the series, in other words... I'm going to start all over again. Meaning that the story I started in 2013 will never be finished. Kind of makes me sad, but I think a reboot will be good for the series. When I started, I did pretty much no planning and the two books are pretty messy. For this reboot, I'm going to seriously focus on writing genuinely good plots, and the relationships between the characters will be much more important. The two books right now are basically superhero books, with human relationships thrown in there. I want the series to focus on the human relationships, likeable characters will real development and personalities that change as the series go on, with the superhero element added in there.
I also want to make the books more realistic. Re-reading the old books it's obvious that I didn't understand how the world works back then. The United States developing a robot army and forcing them to be used in the United Kingdom? Without any sort of referendum, discussion or objection from the British government? It just wouldn't happen. A bunch of teenagers trying to be superheroes wouldn't just be given a penthouse by the police.
Also... there's superpowers. It has been difficult, but I think I'm going to completely remove superpowers from the Captain Justice series, and that includes the characters of James and Ronan (which is a shame, because there were so many stories I wanted to tell with those two). Looking back, including superpowers in a series that I wanted to be grounded and realistic didn't work.
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