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I split up ALL of the seasons into different books. Why did I do this? Good question! I think it’s more organized I guess. Other than that, not entirely sure.

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One thing I am doing is having chapters cut off at more reasonable times. The way I’d go about doing this is is having arcs, and in this case, there is one following the antagonist (which I won’t spoil anything but the plan around him is going to be a huge twist) and the other is between the calico army finding Royland, which also may have quite the end to it as well (if it goes the direction I intend for it to go).
          
          Something I want to do is elaborate on the messages of the story and the plot. Now, if you haven’t read any of chapter 2, I would advise against reading this thread any further because it will contain spoilers. 
          
          All the way up until the 1950’s, Chinese communist dictator Mao Ze Dong indirectly killed his population by destroying farms in place of modernization (which also destroyed many people due to its poor management). One way that people survived was by eating their children- historically speaking, this was actually very commonplace, which is why Nobu’s reaction to this traumatic event was calmer than most people could fathom today. If there was famine, people often resorted to such horrible acts, and one recent case was in the 2000s when a plane of soccer players crashed in the Andes Mountains. Why am I mentioning this? I try to keep a lot of the culture and mindset of the medieval world as accurate as possible, however I am still learning that sieges were not always as depicted in popular media. They’d often last years, battering rams were rarely used, siege weapons we know rarely impacted walls, and some, like siege towers, were too costly for invading and rarely used due to its size and weight. That said, sieges were often very quick or very slow- some lasting seconds and others lasting years. I want to incorporate the latter.

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Hey! Soooo… I don’t like the direction much of my story is going. This isn’t the first time I have scrapped 70+ pages but it likely won’t be the last. My work ethic fluctuates and my motivation to write with that ethic. Needless to say, I am a perfectionist, so improving a story I enjoy writing is crucial. I will keep everything up until the battle in Calicostan, since that is likely some of my best work and still can be edited. Anything after Calicostan, as I often do, is written on a whim, resulting in either events I had seldom planned or otherwise. Primarily I have to have the ability to visualize what I am attempting to get across through my work to the reader, so seeing how I can barely visualize anything after the battle of Calicostan, I will likely need to rework some story points at that point of the storyline. My apologies to anyone who enjoyed that half of my writing, whoever you are, you and I both know you’re likely someone who is my friend but don’t lie to me fool!

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Please forgive me for not mentioning earlier. A few of the earlier iterations of art on this page are not mine, rather they are AI generated. I’m no art page (I can only draw maps), so I understand the controversy. I felt it important to mention that it isn’t my art, but if need be, I will delete them. I feel it’s important to have a picture to understand things, but I am merely a business man!