Well, as you might be able to tell from the title, Mutation is once again complete. I say "again" because I finished it last summer, however since I was unable to find a publishing agent/company, I decided to revamp it this summer and flesh the plotline out so that it would flow into the future novels.
While I'm not going to actually go back and work on editing until after I get back from Chicago in early August, I have been going through it again and comparing it to my first write. In total, I am very happy with this version: the story seems more realistic (well, as realistic as you can get with an infection that turns people into monsters :P), the plots flow, and Gideon's plotline adds a ton more depth. Additionally, I like how I built Rose up to actually become the main character of the sequence, whereas before she didn't really seem all that important. There's a lot of grammatical errors and some typos I've already fixed just in my brief readthrough, but thankfully it doesn't seem like I did that bad of a job writing it this time around. I guess I'm actually learning how to write a good story in addition to writing well grammatically (woot!).
So, hopefully I will be able to find a publisher or an agent by the end of this upcoming fall semester; that would be awesome and amazing and make me feel super-super happy. From now on I won't be talking about the plot or the characters for Mutation too much; for the most part I will be talking about either random stuff going on in my life that seems vaguely important or noting my progress on finding either an agent or an actual publisher.
That does not mean, however, that I will not be writing even during this process. Once I've finished editing (which probably won't take very long; I absolutely hate editing xD) I'm going to start outlining for Maturity and Pa'jagat. While I had finished Pa'jagat before, I have some big plans for it that might be too much for me to handle, but I think I'll have fun working on it with these new plans, and if it turns out like I want it to, it will be absolutely epic. Or so I think. ;)
Anyways, until next time, (every)one. Writr, out.
Correction: I've finished Part 1 of Pa'jagat before. With the way I'm working on it now, however, there will be no "Part 1" per se; the format of how it's organized will be entirely different from Mutation.
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