Regolith Part 2: Darker, Edgier, and More Personal

I write this blog post with a sigh of relief. I just closed out chapter 3 of Regolith and I am still going strong. I get many ideas here and there to implement into the story to give it a better plot.
My main concern now is the overall genre direction. In my recent studies, I've found some detailed information on "dark fantasy" genre literature and decided... Why not? Regolith had some elements of dark fantasy and I plan to augment them in order to push it more into that realm.
Much of it will be darker and with less regard for morality between characters. Certain characters aren't all that... Different, let's say.

Anyway, in my character doodling I noticed how much some of the main characters and the concepts represent me. To that end, I want to make the writing more personal than Rising Seas was to get a better story. While a close friend of mine read Rising Seas and immediately told me "This is everything you've been talking about for years!"; I want Regolith to be something that makes people near and far stop and think "Wow." I mean, I guess that's any author's intent when they write. To tell a story and wow people...
To that end, I don't want to set a timeline for Regolith in case I get behind or worked out or something in life that eats my time.

Thanks for reading, and I'll see you around!!