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Sad News, Happy News | First April Update cw: death
Dear Future Duke,
The dichotomy of life is such that no one can appreciate the happy things in life without also experiencing the sad things. This is a late update due to a very upsetting event that has happened in my life. My great aunt died on Saturday the 29th of March, 2025. She was 79, having just celebrated her birthday a few weeks earlier. While I know she's in a better place now, wherever that may be for us, this loss pains me unlike any I've experienced since the death of my grandfather. I hope that wherever they are, my aunt and grandfather are reunited with their parents. I know that their surviving siblings and the rest of our family will carry this sadness within ourselves until the day comes when we may get the opportunity to see them again.
With the sad news out of the way, I'm grateful to move onto happier news! Ozryn 1 has finally received all the planned scenes, and my current Betas are going through the whole story as I write this. Since I expect this process to be fairly lengthy, I am planning on doing zero rewrites to Ozryn 1 for the month of April. I will instead focus on outlining Ozryn 2, doing worldbuilding, and writing out some short stories I was inspired with. It won't be until at least May that I start editing and rewriting, pending Beta Reader feedback. That being said, the current end of Ozryn 1 does end on a cliffhanger since my original plan was to self-publish. However, I believe that if I rewrite the conclusion to set up for a sequel, I'd be able to query agents and become traditionally published. So I suppose I'll technically be doing a rewrite of the final scene before I get Beta Reader Feedback, though it's more of an alternate ending that will need to be Beta Read itself.
Sincerely,
Past Duke
WIP 1 59,500/85,000
The dichotomy of life is such that no one can appreciate the happy things in life without also experiencing the sad things. This is a late update due to a very upsetting event that has happened in my life. My great aunt died on Saturday the 29th of March, 2025. She was 79, having just celebrated her birthday a few weeks earlier. While I know she's in a better place now, wherever that may be for us, this loss pains me unlike any I've experienced since the death of my grandfather. I hope that wherever they are, my aunt and grandfather are reunited with their parents. I know that their surviving siblings and the rest of our family will carry this sadness within ourselves until the day comes when we may get the opportunity to see them again.
With the sad news out of the way, I'm grateful to move onto happier news! Ozryn 1 has finally received all the planned scenes, and my current Betas are going through the whole story as I write this. Since I expect this process to be fairly lengthy, I am planning on doing zero rewrites to Ozryn 1 for the month of April. I will instead focus on outlining Ozryn 2, doing worldbuilding, and writing out some short stories I was inspired with. It won't be until at least May that I start editing and rewriting, pending Beta Reader feedback. That being said, the current end of Ozryn 1 does end on a cliffhanger since my original plan was to self-publish. However, I believe that if I rewrite the conclusion to set up for a sequel, I'd be able to query agents and become traditionally published. So I suppose I'll technically be doing a rewrite of the final scene before I get Beta Reader Feedback, though it's more of an alternate ending that will need to be Beta Read itself.
Sincerely,
Past Duke
Duke's Personal Progress Tracker (04/04/2025):
Days 30/120WIP 1 59,500/85,000