Moving Ahead… Wait…

November is coming soon. That is the month I’ve been planning to publish The Tale of the Drakanox. I’ve even taken the first steps by creating the master document that I’ll use for uploading. The ISBN numbers for different formats have been assigned, too.

Beginning the process forced me to confront a nagging problem. After I had finished the main story, I decided to add the “Before” section that showed how Ar-Thea started her magelings on their journey to become Minstrels — the title characters of the whole series. I then wanted an “After” section to balance “Before.” The last ten pages had been sort of oddly hung off the end, so I called them “After” instead of Chapter 22.

This always bugged me, though. The “After” section didn’t function in the same way as “Before.” Probably nobody but me would have noticed it, but like I said, it bugged me. So I’ve paused publication long enough to re-write “After.” Instead of discussing all the challenges ahead of the Minstrels, it jumps the timeline forward a year and shows how they are beginning to bring about their hopes for peace.

Finishing this will take me another day or two, and then I expect to get back to publishing. Here’s hoping!

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