-- A Quick Update.
Quick, but not necessarily short.
Thing is, I was thinking to myself how inactive I've been since the end of MAIT's first book, and decided to give you guys a small update on how things are going behind the scenes, and what the near future looks like for Priga Locus.
On My Works
If you're new you might have seen this already, but on the chance you caught up on the first go or not at all:
I've been giving MAIT another editing pass in preparation for... something. Now, this isn't a rewrite, I have no plans to make structural changes to the story. Rather, the objective here is mostly fixing punctuation and typos, introducing some in my opinion much needed formatting changes, sharpening prose and dialog, and cutting off some fluff.
Well, "some" here being a little bit of an understatement. As of writing this very paragraph, I'm on chapter 3 of Children of The Lake and already slimmed the story down by a good 4 or 5 (RR's count, not mine) pages worth of fluff, not counting all the merged paragraphs. If you ask me, MAIT has a much improved beat-to-beat pacing, but I guess only time will tell how you guys feel.
As for my next work, things have been proceeding at an even pacing. I won't go too into detail, as I've said before I run the risk of not doing things if I tease them too much, yet I think it's been coming along nicely, if admittedly a little slow both because I've been having a pretty busy month as well as, for clarity's sake, because I'm still at a stage I find a little tedious and that slows my brain down.
I won't give you dates this early, that's asking for broken promises, but if everything goes to plan you might be hearing more about it late August / September. Hope you're excited! I'm nervous as fuck, but pretty confident I got something good cooking, so look forward to it.
On The Website
The Tiled Tube of Doom is gone! Do you like my new index image?
Took me a while to finish, half because I kind of went off the cuff and half because I ran into some nasty bugs on the way. Like, "I thought I was going to have to scrap off the project and downgrade Blender versions for my next attempt" levels of nasty, but it got better.
Recently, I've re-read my "to do" lists from both the V1 inauguration and 2025 posts, and considered moving the website to V2. Considered, but won't. There are still a few small changes I want to make, like making my blog posts more comfortable to read, but that shouldn't take long.
On that note, however, I do have to apologize for something. I'm still not as good at managing my own time as I wish I was, and the horror story set on the Starlit World I promised unfortunately never left the planning stages. My sincere apologies for this, I'm trying to do better but these are complicated times.
On the backend side of things, a lot changed actually. A lot of my old practice files are gone, as well as some stuff I kept around for fear of breaking random pages. Again, nothing you'll notice most likely, but its a lot easier for me to find what I need (and a lot harder for me to click the wrong file by accident) so it's an improvement.
And, apropos of nothing, I've been learning Javascript! No plans for implementation yet, and if there ever are I'll make sure to inform you first, just letting you know.
In General
The TL;DR is: I'm mostly working on background stuff, nothing practic to show, but I am working and doing my due diligence to not fall on the same pitfalls I did with MAIT, so I kindly ask you to be patient.
July has been a fairly busy month for me, and August promises to not be the most laid back either, but we'll see.
I also been pursuing projects outside writing, like 3D art, for reasons obvious and private both. These last couple years have seen a lot of change on my person, and for as interesting as they can be, they have also been rather unpredictable and so I'm broadening my horizons.
Still, I hope to see you around for these changes. I'm always trying to grow and better myself, and have a lot to share with you all.
Until then, I hope you have a nice week, and I'll see you around!