What a sodding awful year. Also, I'm not dead.
With Uni finished and done a few months ago (I passed with a 2:2 in History), along with my chest pain issues finally being brought under control, I have been able to press on with a bit of writing. Not nearly as much as I'd like, but I've actually been able to do a fair amount. I am currently in the editing process of the first act (got roughly twenty to thirty thousand words altogether), but I do actually have some work to put up. Indeed, I was thinking about doing it back in August to mark Sovereignty's birthday. However, I felt I could cram in a bit more if I waited until Christmas. That way, it would also be a pleasant surprise and a "present" of sorts to you lot.
Therefore, I'm announcing Sovereignty's grand reopening/rebirth today. To prevent things getting mixed up, I'm posting this "new beginning" as a new story.
Sovereignty of Evangelium: Arrival, the first book of a tetralogy that is going to take God knows how long to write, has now been posted. You may find it either by direct search or clicking on my profile. I hope you all enjoy chapter 1 of Shinji's new journey into no end of trouble because his father is a monumental prat.
These days I have a better grasp on plot, character development (according to some I was already decent at characterisation!) and prose, which hopefully means the overall quality of the work is heavily improved. I believe I have also matured a bit since I last put pen to paper (I honestly think my Aspergers Syndrome stunts my mental development by a few years) which means some of the "jokes" present in the previous version won't be there. For example, when I look back on how I used to take the piss out of poor Shinji's private parts, I cringe myself into orbit. That will thankfully remain in the past, forgotten, where it should stay.
I have some pretty concrete outlines for the story now (the works of one KM Weiland have been of tremendous use in this regard. For the budding storyteller scratching their heads about plotting, I'd recommend her books), along with a more codified lore. It would seem I'm even cobbling together some sort of "Bible" for this, so I don't make slip ups in continuity. I'm also attempting to dispense with the "walls of text" in terms of info dumping, adopting more subtle ways of delivering lore unto you my dear readers. By the way, it is for reasons of worldbuilding that "Evangelion" has been changed to "Evangelium." Reasoning for this is that the SEELE equivalent in this is an offshoot of the Catholic Church, who's liturgical language is Latin. Evangelium is the Latin version of Evangelion, and it would be a little odd in some ways for a Catholic Christian sect to be throwing around Greek words.
Once again, I must offer my sincerest and most tremendous apologies for all the years of nothing happening and broken promises. I have no excuses and will thus make none. Hopefully, I can make up for those with this.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, chaps.
Seriously.
After the steaming pile of shit desperately in need of flushing 2020 has been, 2021 better be fucking good.
