caleb_orella

Hey everyone! Reply or message me if you're still active on here- I am just working on things more casually now instead of trying to release a bunch. I probably won't release things for awhile but I want to interact with you and read what you're putting out. A Fallen State is a passion project, something I have thought about everyday for 3 and a half years now. When I actually work on it again and move to finish it, it's going to look entirely different. I want it to be the best thing I could put out there. In order to hone in my writing skills and just prove to myself that I CAN finish a novel, I will be working on two different projects. I am not sure if one will take precedence over the other or not but one will be After Arrival, and the other is a prequel to A Fallen State. Writing this will also help me flesh out the world a little bit better. I know what it is when the novel takes place, but how did it get there? This prequel will help me figure that out as well as potentially explain things to future readers that I do not have time to explain in A Fallen State. Anyways, that's where I am at with my writing now.

caleb_orella

Hey everyone! Reply or message me if you're still active on here- I am just working on things more casually now instead of trying to release a bunch. I probably won't release things for awhile but I want to interact with you and read what you're putting out. A Fallen State is a passion project, something I have thought about everyday for 3 and a half years now. When I actually work on it again and move to finish it, it's going to look entirely different. I want it to be the best thing I could put out there. In order to hone in my writing skills and just prove to myself that I CAN finish a novel, I will be working on two different projects. I am not sure if one will take precedence over the other or not but one will be After Arrival, and the other is a prequel to A Fallen State. Writing this will also help me flesh out the world a little bit better. I know what it is when the novel takes place, but how did it get there? This prequel will help me figure that out as well as potentially explain things to future readers that I do not have time to explain in A Fallen State. Anyways, that's where I am at with my writing now.

caleb_orella

I'm gonna try something! My editor and I are both in school and some real life stuff hit me as well so we are currently still way farther back and my writing is slowing down as we work on making the already written chapters even better. I'm going to go back to weekly releases while we catch up and also see if engagement fares better that way. HOWEVER! Once we get caught up I plan on releasing full chapters in their separate parts and not just singular parts every week :)

caleb_orella

I edited A Fallen State and released those edits. These edits make it easier to read, removes a lot of repetition in words, and I also really tried to put an emphasis on showing rather than telling. I also missed a couple parts of scenes that really don't make sense because I wrote them before writing some other scenes and I cleaned those up so there shouldn't be anymore continuity errors. Go give it a read!

caleb_orella

So in the spirit of transparency, here's why I'm not working on Preserved.
          
          I don't like what I have. At all. I enjoy my characters and stories but this is a story that is not served well by the use of the past tense. In addition to this, my writing skill has improved since I wrote this. And the way I wrote it in past tense does not automatically translate well to present tense.
          
          In short; to make this a project that I'd enjoy working on and be proud of, I would have to rewrite the whole thing and I currently do not have the time for that, especially when I have things like After Arrival that I would love to start back up.