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Chapter 2 will post later tonight!
Still doing training for my new job, trying to suss it out. Will post an update next week!
@phoenixapprentice Congratulations on your new job. Hopefully it turns out to be as good as it sounds. As usual, I remain a huge fan, and I really enjoy your work.
IT'S TIME! Later tonight, Dark Within will finally be posted! Same time as always, 7 p.m. MST. It will be the prologue/introduction and the first chapter. From there it will be published serially just like Light Within, once every Saturday at 7. There are 58 chapters and so it'll run for 58 weeks, which puts us a little over a year.
Also, I've got great news! I just got a new job! I was offered a position as an archival assistant at this place called 'Arcom' which is short for 'Archive Omnium.' It's a huge national project here in the United States comparable to the Library of Congress, only instead of a governmental entity it's entirely independent and operates out of Salt Lake City, Utah. What Arcom predominantly does is preserve fictional works, especially those of unpublished or otherwise unrecognized authors/artists, and they accept any submissions freely. That was actually one of the things that came up in my job interview, were questions about my own writing. I've been writing for a long time so spent a lot of effort answering, which was fine, because they went even further and asked me to name all my characters. All of them. They also asked about previous imaginary friends I had when I was a kid, which I thought was pretty weird, but you know how things are nowadays. You take a job where you can get it. Only thing is, I get the oppressive sense that I've joined a cult. But in this economy, you know, sign me up for a cult that pays well! I'll keep posting updates as I learn more about the job!
Oh, I guess I've forgotten to make an announcement here for a while. Whoops! Today's extra is more special than last the last few weeks anyway. But I won't spoil what it is. Just have to wait until 7 to find out!
Anyway, changing the title of the story has done nothing for the SEO so I guess it's just down to word of mouth. Changed it back.
Tonight's extras will post at the usual time!
Today is the final day! The last chapter of the story will post at 7! There will be *3* sections uploaded so don't forget to check them out ... the final chapter, a final tidbit, and a little something extra ...
And as far as extras go, until the publication of my next story, Dark Within, as I said before I will keep updating LW with fun things such as snippets of older drafts, artwork, memes, and the like. You can check back in every Saturday for something new until the first Saturday of 2025, which is when Dark Within will begin! Thank you to everyone who has participated in this journey with me!
We're getting pretty close to the end of LW, now! The last chapter is chapter 40. I haven't been making consistent announcements because I scheduled the remaining chapters in bulk so I can focus more on preparing for my other projects--namely the sequel to Light Within: Dark Within!
But until I begin posting the sequel, I'll be adding weekly fun stuff at the end of LW! Stuff like artwork me and Kechel have done as we've worked on the series, some behind the scenes (how can there be a bts for writing? Guess you'll find out), and maybe extra pieces of writing. Who knows? I'll decide what I want to post week by week until the first weekend of the new year, when I plan to release the sequel! Thanks to everyone who has read the story and joined me on this authorial journey!
Hello folks
In the interest of making the SEO for my page a bit better (as I just realized I wasn't searchable when I told someone about Light Within and afterward couldn't find it on Google) I have updated Light Within to be named "Light Within Story." Hopefully that will help it get more hits on search engines, because I couldn't find it at all!
I have also unmarked it as mature as I was never sure if the label applied to begin with. I wanted to be safe than sorry but now I'd rather be sorry than safe, if it gets me more hits. If it should be rated mature again I'll accept that, but for now I've unmarked it. The target audience is people in their 20s and so hopefully people will understand that it deals with more adult-relevant themes, while still not being overt about most of them. I've had a range of teens to people in their 40s read the story and enjoy it (before I put it here on Wattpad), but I intended it for people closer to my age range, so that is what I have marked for the audience. Thanks to all who have kept up with it!
Chapter 34 is scheduled! Not going to lie, we're getting to my absolute favorite parts of the story. Of course, I've enjoyed all of it, but it's something about these last few chapters that I just love!
Chapter 33 is scheduled for tonight!