It's been a minute since I last touched this story. How should I start, I wonder? (heh)
This is to announce that Normal in Parenthesis, this story, is going to undergo a minor revision.
What does this entail?
Nothing much will change with the story, so there would be no cases where the story will drastically take a shift. Simply, I came to be dissatisfied with how I wrote this over the years due to my inexperience in writing beginning from 7 years ago, and I want to address it, and well, bury the cringe that haunts me to this day.
Some minor things will be removed, and some things will be added.
Admittedly, I never really thought about how I would develop the sequel, Rainbow of the Horizon. And it's come to a point where I want both of the stories to flow together a lot more.
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How will I update the revised chapters?
I'm still exploring it. I can either update the existing chapters, or I can unpublish them and and re-release. Personally, I am leaning towards the first option so that I could add notes to append on whatever I wrote in the post-chapter messages. Although I have been publishing in this site for many years, I actually don't know if updating a chapter will bump it again, since I came to this not caring about view count, but simply just wanting to get this story out somewhere and in some way.
About the final cover update
Probably the only biggest thing that would change is the cover. The existing cover will be receive some form of a redraw. It was originally drawn in 2019, and I would say that I want to improve a lot over the past 5 years drawing. The cover will probably be updated once the revision is all done.
Normal in Parenthesis will officially be concluded once the revision is finished.
Together with the cover redraw, I am officially going to be retiring this story after publishing the updates. I want to conclude the story in a way that I will be satisfied with, and I don't plan on touching this ever again after the changes are complete. What was my passion project, will end as my passion project.
When will revisions be complete?
I am 40% into the revisions, and as such I don't have a set on when it will be live. I will probably post another announcement when the revisions have been published.
That is all, and thank you for reading.