I am getting my initial feedback of developmental edits for the first 7,000 words of "Kars Vandor: Merchant of Vision." Very good notes, that are encouraging, as I tighten up the foreshadowing and story.  I will take the day off tomorrow for family time, and review and implement the suggested development notes.

I have just added this Blog to my Amazon Author page.

 I got my edits back from Terry. He has given me an expanded direction to go in. Very grateful for his help. I delayed what I sent to Starling Falls, to give a more comprehensive revised opening, and submitted 7,000 words to her. I know I will change the story more after she finishes her developmental editing work.

I've started working to the brain enhancing music of Brain.fm, an app on the google play store.

Just listening to this for the trial period, inspired me to create a whole new visual opening scene. I will hire Dmitry Veseliy from Fiverr.com to execute that opening scene for me.

From Fiverr.com, I have purchased three more art pieces from Dmitry, and his talent shows. I am still trying to decide how to use these images, but they fit the feeling and flavor of the Setting I am trying to build.

Back to Fiverr- Team Building

 Yesterday I went to Fiverr and I contacted two potential development editors:

Starling Falls, from America.

She started working on the Prologue, and first four chapters of Merchant of Vision (#1).

Very professional approach. She has two degrees- Creative Writing, and Psychology.

The other will be the Canadian Writer, and Actor Terry Hayman. He has an impressive body of work. With his skill, I think the emotional tones I am looking for will be brought forth onto the page.

Slept 5 hours last night. I am up, back to work. Today I will complete full character profiles for the Major Characters, using Scrivener- in the style of the Moxxu Profile.

Then I will start working on the Series Chronology.

What a week

 I started copying the text of Merchant of Vision over to Reedsy for formatting.

Big epiphany today, this Epic story across a dozen volumes will definitely be multi generational.

Only sleeping 2 or 3 hours a night, too much stress over this insurrection. I hope America prevails for a brighter future. But it seems uncertain.

Back to the Aurin Cluster

 I'm back to working on the Aurin Cluster with the actual writing of Kars Vandor: Merchant of Vision.

I have 140,000 words now. Cutting it down.

I am using multiple resources here:

Dragon Naturally Speaking Home V15 Speech Recognition
https://www.nuance.com/dragon/dragon-for-pc/home-edition.html

The Novel Factory
https://www.novel-software.com/

One Stop For Writers
https://onestopforwriters.com/

Grammarly
https://app.grammarly.com/

ProWritingAid
https://prowritingaid.com/

Putting Sci Fi on hold, doing some Fantasy work.

 Hitting a dead end with the concept, taking an extended break to work on it in the back of my mind. Switching to a grim and gritty low fantasy setting.

Interesting Backstories and changes.

 I find too many characters starting with the letter "K".

Kars Vandor will not change.

Kannika Nair becomes Tannika.

Now I am coordinating backstories, giving these characters reasons to cooperate and work together.