Foreword
Hello! It's been dumb long. I haven't stopped writing, though! In fact, I'd like to think I've gotten better-better than I was in 2012 when I posted the first chapter of BrambleClan Story. That was a while ago, and I've sort of stopped reading the Warriors series for a bit, but it hasn't left my heart!
I was thinking for a bit, and I thought it would be great to revisit BrambleClan Story, but what was I gonna do? Animate? Make a webcomic? Write from a whole other perspective?
I began reading through the story again and I thought to myself, wow, this is great, but god it's kinda hard to read!. Well, I did write it when I was in the 7th grade, and now I'm in the 11th. Perhaps it's time for a redux!
So that's precisely what I plan on doing- reintroducing BrambleClan Story to the masses, but in a much more eloquent, well-thought-out fashion. I'll be doing it chapter-by-chapter, so feel free to pull up both versions of a chapter and compare!
It'll be more or less the same story with (hopefully) more continuity, but this time it'll be 3rd person only, which is a challenge, since I've only ever written in first person.
For those who haven't read through the original story, here's a snippet of original exposition:
" ... I'm sure that you, reader, have heard many tales of the ruthless and vicious BloodClan. They had very strict rules which stated that if you could not survive on your own, you could not survive with BloodClan. This was the primitive, more unsettled BloodClan than the one that took in the five newly-orphaned kits and raised them as their own.
After many moons, the disbanded cats of BloodClan found themselves back together, but with a different attitude. They were shocked after witnessing the horrible yet necessary murder of their late leader, Scourge, and decided that they were better off alone than live under such horrible conditions. BloodClan has kept some of their vicious ways, but only to a certain extent. Now they can actually be considered a "clan". They believed in StarClan, had medicine cats, a formal leader and deputy, and actually took care of the sick and old. The only problem was getting the other clans to believe that they have changed. ..."
That's the setting without giving away too much of the plot. Of course, you could just go and read the old story, but you could also wait for the re-written chapters and discover BrambleClan Story all over again.
I'll try as hard as a can to get chapters out quickly, but I'm older now and have a lot more going on so no promises.
As for BCS Book 2... Well, I came upon the predicament where I was hand-writing the chapters a lot faster than I was typing them, and I didn't really want to painstakingly type out stuff I've already written, so I just stopped. I have the handwritten chapters in a drawer somewhere, so maybe after this is done, I can revisit Book 2. Fingers crossed!
If anyone is reading this who's read BCS back in 2012-2014, welcome back! I hope you'll enjoy the redux as much as the original.