Hello Everyone and again, sorry for breaking a promise.
I noticed that some of you already jumped ship to my new novel so I'm not going to push it:
It's the same style cause I'm still the same author writing the same sort of experimental writings. And though my English is evolving my descriptions are still lacking and what I'm writing, always as clear cut effective to convey ideas and feeling rather than immerse you in a poetic overload of impressive details. I'm not that sort of author. I'm reading them and trying to improve my English through them. But I'm still a long way from getting there.
The main character is a human and not a dog. And she have a anthropomorphize cat who talk and think in a human adjacent way. So we are very far from the promises of RK9—Rescue Dog in terms of somewhat faithful animal representation.
The story is distancing itself from reality instead of being deeply anchored in urban fantasy.
And I completely changed the system though there is some similarities between the two.
Into the Fray [https://www.royalroadcdn.com/public/covers-large/75322-into-the-fray.jpg?time=1698348064]
You can find everything I published on my user page, including 'Into the Fray' and I hope, the future adventures of Ember in a few months from now.
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Now that I'm done promoting my new novel, here is the bad nand good news for you:
If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it.
RK9 Rescue Dog is dead but Ember might resurrect from its ashes in a rewriting-reboot of the novel. It might sound weird but I'm not the same person I used to be 8 months ago or more like the person I was one year ago when I first started writing thr first draft of this novel.
I was in a really bad place and Ember was the fictional savior I needed in my life. Now, I don't feel like I need saving anymore but I could still use Ember in my life, not to save it but to magnify it and turn my now OK life into something beautiful.
So Ember definitely still have a place in my heart and I think she deserved better. For example, I don't think I'm going to kill Ember's owner this time around because Ember's owner meeting her end was my self-insert into the novel (awkward). And though it did served its narrative purpose, explaining Ember's drive for saving people... I'm thinking I'm going to give her a nicer backstory this time around. Who say that every hero needs to have their uncle's Ben moment to become the hero they are meant to be? Besides, I think I like flawed heroes better.
I don't have a clear idea yet. But I want Ember to still be herself. I still want magic in my universe for fantasy escapism. But I think I need to think smaller about my universe. I have a setting: a cute little valley nested between mountains, probably closer to home than my previous setting. But I don't have a story yet, because it had yet to click on the right angle.
Ideas can stay on the shelf for months or even years. But RK9 Rescue Dog was itself the byproduct of four previous drafts that never made the cut in the past five years or so. So since I've been ruminating this failure for almost six months already, it is safe to say it might take me six to nine months to get back into it.
But I love fiction, caring for kids and dogs. These are like my three passions in life. So get patient. Unless I die before then, Ember returns is guaranteed.
And I can already promise you two more announcements: one when I would get started on the project, with news on my favorite border collie. And another when it would be ready to be released.