Happy New Year! Sorry about the delays. An Explanation!
In Chapter 189 of "Reject Human. Become Demon. [Curse Mage Berserker]": Hey there! Happy New Year!Sorry for the lack of uploads to start off 2026. I... Discover the next events!
Hey there! Happy New Year!Sorry for the lack of uploads to start off 2026. I haven't just disappeared! I just got the edited version of Book 1, so I'm finally doing my final pass of the KU version, and uh, I miscalculated!
Listen. I have vague recollections of editing a book in 3 days way back in the day. But that was shorter, I did a worse job there, I was just a much worse writer in so many ways! I didn't know what the fuck I was doing. There were so many mistakes left, and I never realized as I went ahead and printed it and passed it around!
I was young, okay!? A kid! Everyone's cringe at some point. I bet you were worse!
Anyway, thatās whatās been taking me so long. This really has to be the final definitive version, so Iām doing it as best I can. Not gonna lie, my original plan was to just get the edits, and then itās ready, but now Iāve ended up doing a real deep edit of original manuscript, before then comparing it with the edits, and taking only the parts I like/still missed. Which are still very helpful, of course! But it took a while until I realized and accepted thatās what I needed to do, leading to me doing some outright insane shit like comparing each paragraph line by line, and if theyāre not an exact match then manually looking for that comma out of place, before then deciding on which one Iām keeping.
That isā¦ that is not standard procedure. Iām an idiot. It took me a while to realize there were programs for comparing two similar texts. And longer still for me to stop only feeding it one sentences, and fucking realize that I can compare the two whole documents side by side and have it highlight all the differences.
And this is on top of the meaningful changes that Iām making now that Iām doing a deep edit. And of course, getting stunlocked over one punctuation at a time. Yes, this one fucking comma will make or break the story, so I better ponder it like itās the key to the universe!
I donāt even write like that normally. Why am I like this
Well, because I do usually run by instinct. Half so, even with editing. But now I actually gotta think about the grammar, and then where I can break it.
But donāt worry! I'm closing in on finishing this. (Chapter 50/72 now) Just some more days, I want it to be out too! It sucks that I wasnāt able to make it last year. Alas.
Lessons were learned, and I will not make the same mistakes next time. Self-pub, am I right? Now Iām committed to doing it for all 5+ books of this book! Hoorayā¦
after all this, I can finally get back to actually moving forward with the story. So stay-tuned for that! Where the public release is now... should have something I'm excited about coming up soon!