Fighting to be Kind in a Cultivation World

Author Update – End of Book 1

Hi all,

As you might have seen, my progress on chapters has completely ground to a halt.

I have to be honest with myself.

Unfortunately, the fiasco with my Patreon shutting down wrecked my creative juices toward the upcoming sections. Even though I have the framework in place to write, I think I need move to another project for a bit to regain that spark.

So, I'll be finishing out this book with a 'hiatus'. The official end to ‘Book 1, in the future, will have a more satisfying ending, but for now I need to step away from the project.

I feel like if I can work on something else for a bit, walk away from the project, and come back as a reader, then I'll be able to better identify the areas that I want to improve in it. To write the sections in a more satisfying way.

Because everything I'm writing for it... is just not hitting the notes that I envisioned for this section. And the characters in the story deserve better than that.

With that said, I'll be creating another project. The one I had mentioned in earlier author notes.

Ironically enough, I've gotten approval from Patreon to post the new project on their site. With all the benefits of their revenue and posting structure becoming available again.

Yes. I'm a little salty.

But there are some things that were learning lessons during this. The first being that the previous method of posting and having gated releases worked. Being able to have a close knit group that saw the early work and commented on it, while contributing to having me continue in it, was motivating in a way that I haven't been able to replicate with unrestricted access.

I want to end this with another promise.

I am not abandoning this project. Just setting it aside until I can write it better. So that I can give these characters, the world, and all of you, the endings and kindness that they deserve. In doing so, I can refine the core concepts and styles, by exploring related works.

To that end, the newest work will be part of the same general theme.

With this now being part of something I’m calling the 'Kindness Anthology'.

Works within the Anthology will have the same original protagonist and general powerset from 'Fighting to Be Kind', but instead of the protagonist being taken when they were in 'Fighting to be Kind', they'll be coming in at a another stage in their life and into a totally different environment/genre. In this case, giving you a slightly more mature version of James.

Even as I say that, these worlds will not be connected to each other. Just spawning from the same original jumping off point.

My hope is that this will allow the core of the concept from 'Fighting to Be Kind' to be retained. To allow me to view the character from a different perspective. Writing, from a different perspective.

At the same time, it also gives me the chance to do major editing of Fighting to Be Kind as I progress over time.

After all is said and done, I want to express my deepest appreciation for all of you. For everyone who has stuck with the Fighting to Be Kind in a Cultivation World until this point and has supported it in the past.

To reiterate to you all, that this isn't the end. I've been planning for a long while to have this series become an audiobook, an animation, and being shown through a whole bevy of other mediums.

With time, we'll get there.

For now, though... To new horizons.

Sincerely,

Author Jared@@novelbin@@