hey, its been a while where should i begin...
Firstly I want to thank and show my appreciation to everyone who read, is still reading and actually enjoyed this story, I know at first I did and I do feel sorry for stopping all of a sudden. But i realised some things that I needed to improve on.
When i started writing this story I seriously underestimated writing a web novel, and in doing so I made 2 very grave mistakes which ultimately lead to what I now believe to be a mediocre story on my end.
1. was not having a full structure of what the story was going to be and how it should go for at least a decent chunk of arcs to build a firm base and give me time to look back and edit things in the story. I really wish I had as I would have realised a few things whilst writing the story that I would have changed, as once i posted them, i quite literally wrote myself into a corner and ended up not being able to incorporate better ideas and new things I wished for my web novel.
2. I posted way too much for the backlog I did not possess, resulting in Literally struggling to get out a chapter a day whilst also living my daily life, whilst simultaneously having no idea what was going to happen in the chapter due to a lack of structure, (honestly that was stupid on my end and I PROMISE, I've learned from that, but more on that later), this caused me to burn out, rush and eventually kind of fall out of love with writing this story which is a shame, because I love writing, I love creating and I want to write a web novel series that could one day sit up there with the greats and be discussed as an amazing series, just like Re:zero, Jobless reincarnation, The beginning after the end, lord of the mysteries and many other series.
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so where have I been over these last few months, well thanks for asking, I have been trying to do this properly, coming up with what i believe and Hope to be interesting story ideas, and creating an actual plan, coming up with a list of character, writing out short summaries of arcs and then expanding and actually bullet pointing speech and actions to get a clearer picture of everything. trying to come up with complex characters, a fleshed out world, a power system that is easy to understand yet gives way to great possibilities and etc. the list goes on. i have had many ideas and realistically I only have 2 that I believe are worth expanding, i started with one, however when the idea for another came i immediately fell in love with it and so far I have an idea for at least 7 arcs so far that could happen and have fully fleshed out and know all the small details that happen in arc 1 that can set up the future arcs and hopefully create a good story, i have read and listened to a lot of lore from light novel / web novel stories I love, manga, manhwa etc. which honestly you may see and notice in my new story that I will be posting. "THE BLACKSTONES FOOL". for example. Re:zero and the seven deadly sins made me fool in love with the idea of characters that represent each sin and so in my story I also have the main antagonists that represent these sins. BUT DONT WORRY. I have not copied all their powers and their personalities and all that, all though they are inspired and you may see some similarities that I thought were cool. I have made them my own characters and I will write them in my own twisted way, i simply couldn't help my self from using such a cool trope whilst also giving respect to the authors of such amazing stories to show how they have truly inspired me and countless others. I hope this will be a long series and I plan to take it a lot more seriously and a lot more planned out. it should be a long series though at this point I still don't know how long as I said, I'm taking this one VERY VERY VERY, seriously.
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I plan at least having the key stuff all written out in note form for the first 3-4 arcs and at least the 1.5 - 2 full arcs actually written out just in case anything changes in my head or doesnt work before I begin posting the story, to give me wiggle room to change things whilst also giving me a healthy back log. I plan to release it some time early 2025 so if youve made it this far. please, check it out when it does.
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the titles = THE BLACK STONES FOOL
SHORT SUMMARY -
Set in a world as advanced as the Tudor period, where blessings, monsters and spirits exist. This story follows a young man, Arthur Blackstone, age 17 who is one of the many children of the Duke of Stra (the northern most city in the continent of Larona) and is considered talentless and a fool. As his siblings were all blessed with great gifts of strength, power, intelligence and other sort after powers, the fool had the powers of a common jester, that of illusions and tricks, and even with his mighty blood line, he was easily outperformed by mere children and common birth. He was truly a failure lacking in brains, strength or power and so was branded the fool of the family and those of the city he lived in.
And the man truly was a fool, in the eyes of the people, just a talentless no one. However, you must ACT the fool, to make people believe you are a fool, and when they believe of you as a fool, it only strengthens the illusions and trickery.
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(MY FAVOURITE ARCS I HAVE IN MY HEAD AND JOTTED DOWN SO FAR ARE ARC 4 AND 5, THATS WHERE SOME MAJOR CHNAGES HAPPEN. AND MY FAVOURITE CHARACTER OUT OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IS ROSALINA ROSEMARY, WHO YOU FIRST MEET IN ARC 2)
if you took your time to read this far down in this mighty waffle thank you and I hope you will read my next web novel that will be better and WILL NOT END AT CHAPTER 57 (i think thats the last chapter) "THE STORY WILL BE FAR SUPERIOR, I SUPPOSE" (as betty would say)
I will still leave this web novel up for anyone who liked and enjoyed it and just as proof to show just how much I improved from my first failure and hopefully my second success.
once again thanks for everything and I will see you shortly I hope.