Fully Aware - Full Draft completed.

Well, after working hard on this story over the past month I delayed my post because I kept updating the different chapters and scenes, however I do have a complete draft going across 12 Chapters; more than I expected.

It's taken some time to get this written and then amended, and it still needs to be proof read after my initial readers give me feedback on the actual storyline, such as everything is explained etc. I hope that I have done this all correctly, yet I can'y help worrying as after plenty of short stories I have never written a complete story of this size before and I'm nervous about not explaining everything within the story properly.

The truth is, I expect some things need to be amended, but I am hoping they are little things, after all we can't expect to do things correctly on the first go.

Here is an updated map of Toltheria:

Hopefully upon reading the story this should help visualise the locations to a certain degree, and understand the characters positions within the world.

Within this story I ended up with thirteen characters that play an important roles within the story, so while the story itself certers on Ayithe and her journey, there are plenty of other characters whos roles effect the decisions she makes along the way.

 It's strange for me reading this waypoint because 'Fully Aware' started off as a short story with only four characters and only about ten pages long. Now with thirteen characters and over 200 pages long it's such an evolved story that it feels bizarre seeing it as the same thing. All four characters from the short story: Ayithe Solete, Arckry Solete, Dreach Borundis & Chevior Irone have made it into full story, but they have all changed in one way or another for this much bigger and better(hopefully) story.

To be honest, I could really do with some drawings to show off some of the characters, I'm not a terribly great artist so my skills are limited, but maybe I'll have a go. For now though, I'm excited and nervous about what my inititial feedback will be and looking forward to preparing this to be released properly.

So far the above picture is my favourite title logo, but I have to decide if I'm going to keep the name Fully Aware, and this is because really, Fully Aware was almost a code name to cover the story until I could think of a better one. I've been considering calling it "Solonce" as it plays a key feature in the story, but I've not completely decided upon this yet, but of course, once this is all finalised I have to wonder which part of teh story I'll write next; the prequel - Raslin's Story, or the sequel - Scattered pieces.

Decisions decisions...