Yeah, so it looks like I'm going to be making another drastic decision. After seeing the condition of my novel, and being unhappy with how I wrote it, with all the mistakes I made, I've decided that I can no longer write this thing.
This is for a majority of reasons: I already spend the majority of my free time in the day writing this, so I have no time, nor the motivation to rewrite my older chapters. I've learned that my writing skills aren't amazing, I haven't asked enough question to realize the novel that you want to read.
Ever since chapter 9, when I left for my vacation to China, I have not proofread any of my chapters after I finished writing them. Every single chapter after that point is basically a first draft of the chapters, and I just released them, without ever going back to check them, like they were finished products. I don't write my chapters at one single time, it's normally spread out very unevenly throughout the day, and my writing is very reflective of the current emotions I had at the time. Because my writing is not constant, I sometimes lose the feelings that I was trying to convey, and forget to include important moments because they slip out of my mind after a few minutes.
Anyhow, I think we can all agree that Arthur is a little bit too smart. It's almost as if he's the narrator since no one other than him explains how things work. Rather than learning about the world with Arthur, he's basically just narrating for me, which doesn't seem realistic.
Arthur's thorough thoughts probably take up thirty percent of the novel, maybe even forty percent. And my dialogue, and descriptions aren't amazing either.
I could go on and on about all the terrible qualities of my novel, yapping for another two thousand words like I do in normal chapters, but I won't.
Now, I know I said I wasn't going to take a break again, but it looks like I lied. Again. I don't know when I'll be back, but I'll only start writing again once I feel confident enough, or sometime before December if you want a range. It could be a single week, but it could also turn out to be multiple.
On that note, if you have read this far, congratulations, you've arrived at my special Q&A section, where I'll answer questions that I think you have.
Firstly, do you like Arthur Ventrike? No? Well too bad, because I do. When I come back, I will write a novel set in a world with a power system similar, but much more refined. I like to think that I've succeeded in the creativity department at least, but maybe not.
If my new novel becomes decent enough and receives a contract offer like this one, will I make the novel contracted?
Well, I don't have a clear answer for that, not that you'd believe me after I've gone back on my promises so many times. But as of right now, 11/5/2024, 9:31 AM EST, I will not sign the contract. Of course, this opinion may change if I see people enjoy my novel, since I do need money to pay for college in the future, and saving a few hundred dollars would be better than making zero dollars. We'll see.
Now, if you've read past all that yap, and are still here, I'll give you a treat, every single one of the arcs I wanted to get through (that I remember as of writing this announcement)(I hope I don't regret this)
Arthur cures himself, looks for Dustin, before the start of his story in his previous life but gets denied since Dustin is a much more serious man, and Terminus is also not there, chilling somewhere with the Sages and Philosophers, I dunno.
Arthur tries to get in touch with Pyro, but entering the Realm of Flames, where the fire is much more intense, bigger, and the throne is much more extravagant, a goddess sits atop it, with her crimson red hair, just as beautiful as Pyro, but much more... fierce. Do you know who I'm talking about yet? It's Pyro's mother, Meridal! Goddess of Fire, and justice/truth!
In this world, Pyro is not a god anymore, and Meridal is the only god to survive Arcanus' rampage, but she manages to keep Pyro safe, by taking Pyro's divine power, and along with her own, she casts a curse of sorts, removing Pyro's immortality, but having her soul never die, endlessly reincarnating as a mortal.
Arthur finds Pyro, who is a saintess candidate, for the first time in thousands of years where two with the stigma of the saintess appear, Rachel is still out with the Dusty Knights, serving a pilgrimage of sorts. Pyro doesn't have memories of the previous world, or of previous lives, but is still madly in love with Arthur, it's really poetic.
Ah you know what? I just realized that I won't be able to reveal all my ideas, just like how I wanted the bad ending parts to fit in 1 chapter, but it ended up taking 10,000 words to finish, so I'll just skip a whole lot. In this world, Arcanus has memories of the ones prior and escapes five years before the seal was originally undone.
The cause of the disturbance in the air when Arthur was teleported to the outside world by Arcanus was because of the Arcanus cult, they released manuals with the power of demons to the entire world. Suddenly all the untalented in the world received talent worthy of being called a genius, had they been in any other time prior.
Turns out, Arcanus isn't actually evil, he killed all the gods and strong people that Arthur knew because he gains strength from absorbing true talent. He despises demons, but killing the demonic humans, basically everyone in the world by that point, would not make him stronger, but would instead hasten the fusion with the demon world. He needs power so that he can fight the demons.
Firstly, neither celestials or demons are stronger than another. The demons lost the war because they invaded the mortal world, an area out of their jurisdiction. Demonic Power that they use is far weaker in the mortal world, and mana is also much weaker, and cannot be regenerated after consumed in the demon world. So Arcanus needs as much power as he can get, to stop the fusion of worlds.
Loran Ventrike, a member of the long Ventrike line who are a force, unknown to the mortal world, that have trained heroes within their family, that have went down to the demon world, and defeated their forces. Their bloodline has a very special power that enables them to use mana to their fullest capabilities, even in the demon world. But, for the first time ever, Loran, the first to break this tradition, fails his mission. But luckily for him, the queen of the demons took and interest in him and well, Loran entered the queen's bedchambers, and after a long, rough, and loud night, he emerged from the room,
He was given many artifactual items, and a throne was placed next to the queen's, in her massive Demonic-Steel Castle that took up five percent of the entire Demon Realm, which was twice the size of Aegela. Ten days later, Arthur was born under both parent's eyes. However, in the great feast held by the Queen, to celebrate the birth of a great heir, later in the night, when the feast had finished, the queen laid in her bed, with much anticipation, the one who she waited for never arrived. After two hours, the queen finally realized Loran would never come, and sent all the hundreds of thousands of demons residing in her castle to search for him. But she was too late. Loran, with the small baby wrapped, sleeping silently in his hands ran quickly, without any of his artifacts, or sword, he ran.
Just as he had reached the entrance to the demon realm, from whence he came, just as the demoness arrived, her eyes now turned crimson and full of rage, about to release some sort of awesome power, he grabbed a small glass-like shard from his cloak, and fell through the wall, escaping from the Demon World with nothing but the cursed baby Arthur in his hands.
Wow, I really wrote three paragraphs just for his backstory. Looks like I got off track again.
In the end, Arthur fights Arcanus to the death, and wins, with neither holding any spiteful feelings for another. Then Arthur goes to the Demon Realm and defeats them once and for all, bringing peace across the realms, and Pyro gets her memories back. Oh, and Isabella is cool. Arthur kind of teaches her how to make Pure Mana circles, and his theory on advancing slowly was wrong, Isabella gets the hang of it better than Arthur and becomes a great asset for him in future fights.
That's not all, but I should start researching soon so, see y'all!