@dragonthusiast
I spent a week editing Kinbound so I can enter it into the Wattys. Now I can finally return to writing Crash and Burn and finishing the Thief's Dragon rewrite. I'm missing like two chapters and I haven't been able to push myself to finish it
I was finally going to add a sequel or two to Wings of Gold, but since I wrote the first two books years ago, I needed to reread them to remind myself of facts of the story.
Having done that, I realized I'm unhappy with the quality of prose and general vibe of the story, so I'm currently rewriting the first two (I'm about halfway done with the first).
The story will stay the same, as will the characters, but I'm adding a lot of improvement to the prose, dialogue, and personality, as the characters seemed a bit flat to me now. Idri especially just reads kind of like Castiel from Supernatural.
Once these rewrites are done, I'll upload the updated versions of both and continue on with the third book. See you then.
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I've now finished writing all the epilogues for Bring the Dawn, making the Nightstar trilogy officially entirely complete. I gave myself a deadline for this year, and I made it, even though narrowly. I'm so happy it finally has all the content I wanted to add, even if not edited yet, so I can mark it as finished at last.
I'll probably eventually end up writing another series in the same world, but that's for the far future. I'll take a bit of a break and then decide what to work on next, just to avoid burning out because this series threatened to do it many times, even if I'm really happy I did write it overall.
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Pepiryn concern about usefulness and skills is relatable. Do you plan his growth and confidence arc in advance or let it emerge naturally as the story progresses?
@dragonthusiast thank you!
After almost exactly 3 years of work, I finally finished my fantasy trilogy Nightstar. I'll still be adding epilogues to the last book, Bring the Dawn, but the story itself is over, so I'm gonna celebrate it now.
This series took a lot out of me, and at points I was starting to doubt that it would ever end. The final book is currently sitting at 161K words, which is by far the longest book I've ever written. The series will have a total word count of over 400K, which is also the longest series I've ever written.
Nightstar has been such a constant part of my life for so long that it being over honestly doesn't even feel real yet. But all the toiling and effort were definitely worth it. I think this series is my best work yet, largely thanks to the constant support from my fiance, both emotionally and in terms of writing. I'm sure I'll find things to improve and fix when I get around to editing, but overall I'm really happy with how it turned out.
Once those epilogues are done, I'll be left without a big project to work on, which will be really weird, but I have plenty of things on the backburner to pick up. Maybe I'll be finally able to get back to finishing the Curse of Magic and Wings of Gold series, just about a year off from what I thought was a reasonable estimate of getting to work on them. I'm really bad at predicting these things.
@dragonthusiast Congratulations on finishing it! From what I understand it’s a very bittersweet moment. Happy it’s finished, sad because it’s completed. Leaving the characters behind is like leaving family behind. Nope, I’m not a writer at all but I understand all too well due to working with a writer here on Wattpad in bringing her characters to life with photos, graphics, sketches and her words about them. I know all the characters and through it all, I learned what writers feel about their characters. Though I was somewhat privileged to tiny tidbits of information about them from her that most don’t know, I don’t think it would have mattered actually, I love all of them. If you are interested in reading the whole series which now consist of 10 books, one book is a guide that gives all kinds of information for the world and characters, three books for the first series called Wanderlust, Wayfarer and Waterborne is where you should begin. Then move to the next part which is the Greatest Thief series and there are two books that are like a branch off within that series. All are written by @juliecotewriter who has built a world that encompasses all the books, families, friendships, love and adventure! I’ll be honest, the best thing I did was contact her about a certain tattoo in the book Wanderlust never realizing that from there, her characters would be a passion project for me to work on and give her faces of her beloved characters. It’s been a challenge at times but it’s been the most rewarding project I’ve ever done. The whole series can be found in my reading list named The World of Zianna and the books are listed in reading order starting with Wanderlust. Should you read them, I hope you enjoy them as much as I have.
Heyyy, yeaaa so you might or might not have noticed that I had been absent in these past few weeks and well that's because my grandma passed away and well it took a load on me. So yeah I have kinda recovered from it and well i am back again not as miserable as before!! Idk I just felt like telling you this so i did! Hope you are doing good!
@ Jisoo984 Oh no, I'm sorry to hear that :( Good to hear you're doing better though, definitely take as much time as you need to process it. Sending virtual hugs
Congratulations @dragonthusiast for being The 2025 Nano Watt Winner Extraordinaire! We kindly ask that you provide an appropriate email address through which to contact you regarding your audio book prize and your feature for The Nano Watt Hall of Fame. We ask that you provide this email address in the next three days. Failure to do so will be regarded as a forfeit of your prizes. We look forward to your correspondence. Once more, a huge congratulations to you! Nicholas Bookkeeping and Miscellaneous, The Nano Watt Team. The Nano Watt Crowning Excellence!
@dragonthusiast The email regarding your Nano Watt Hall of Fame Highlight Feature has been sent!
@ TheNanoWatt thank you! Received and replied :) Very excited.
(PS: forgot to ask in my email response but I'm super curious how the audiobooks were chosen :0 cause beyond being indie I don't really see a pattern connecting them, so I'm just wondering if there's some backstory there :D)