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Heyo! I haven’t talked about it here, but I am currently in the process of republishing a revised version of The Tide Rises, as you may have seen. I am keeping the other version up as an archive; the newer version has cleaner grammar, descriptions, and quality of life stuff for hopefully smoother reading. Some scenes have been altered and an entire chapter is added in-between later down the line, which prompted my decision to re-publish.
          
          I intend to actually finish this one this time around, as my ideas are clearer in my outlines and everything now, especially towards the end. My plan as of now is weekly updates every Wednesday, which started with New Years. Up until around chapter 12, there will be two chapters a week as little has changed there. This is, of course, subject to change as I started spring classes on Monday and life can get hectic (I’m a music composition major—I have pieces to write on top of solo violin + orchestra music to learn and choir pieces to memorize and music theory is annoying in general lmao). Today’s update is an example of that: only Chapter 5 is currently ready and 6 may need either a few more hours or a few more days depending on my time/energy.
          
          Anyway, for now, please enjoy this week’s chapters <3
          https://www.wattpad.com/story/370381776?utm_source=ios&utm_medium=postToProfile&utm_content=story_info&wp_page=story_details&wp_uname=kayvi0

added 2 extra scenes in the later chapters of TTR and everything between those flows a little nicer now instead of just abruptly going from one conclusion to another big scene. right now i’m hoping to finish an earlier chapter (13) which i added completely, and after that, i want to start pushing out The Tide Rises rewrite #10382848 <3
          
          i dunno if i mentioned it here before, but this next rewrite will be a new book because of the extra things i added and i see it as more of a finalized version of the constant editing i’ve done over the currently published one. when the new one is uploaded, the other one will stay up and serve as an unfinished archive.
          
          thanks for following along :>

why does ao3 go down the one time i try to do something there.

the tek and terra scene was so sad to revisit help

kit is so cute fshdjwjfjwbvbsbd

I did it. I finished the outline, and it makes so much sense, and it is everything I can ask for in a proper ending for The Tide Rises and the faction war. And right as I finished it, the most perfect, calming ending type song started playing from my spotify playlist. You don't understand how ETHEREAL I feel right now

just wrote the angstiest thing i’ve ever written in the context of the tide rises combined with the fact i just pulled an all-nighter help

Take this with a grain of salt for now, but I’ve been rereading The Tide Rises after not touching it for probably a year now and I can’t even lie I’m fangirling over my own writing. Sometimes those writing tip posts I see on Instagram say to take a break from your story and come back later to help with motivation, and I see what they mean because oh my god??? i just got a new spark and i feel like i NEED to tie things up
          
          Originally my plan was to finish the first two stories of my trilogy before going back so that everything would make sense to me. I was writing a thing in my notes about how I have new ideas that I want to re-incorporate in a rewrite and then about the point just above (i like to write long A/N’s that are never actually gonna be published :P) and then I realized that The Tide Rises stands fine on its own with the small explanations of past events that aren’t put in finished/published chapters of the previous stories. I think where my motivation fell flat—aside from just wanting to game all day instead of anything else—is telling myself I need everything to be published so that everything makes sense.
          
          There was also the part where I didn’t have the ending actually planned out, as well as Siona’s role which made me throw it in last minute and then confuse myself further. I think what I might do is rewrite bits and pieces (again) keeping in mind my finalized ending idea and incorporating Siona earlier so that it makes sense to me again. Anyway thanks for coming to my incoherent 2am ted talk goodnight

my music playlist shuffle brought my my fight scene writing song right AFTER i had finished a fight scene i’m gonna sue

help now that i’ve been playing red dead redemption i have ideas for a GHOSTvSHADOW wild west universe