I did something big. And from the picture, you can probably tell what I’m about to talk about.

You have been incredibly patient with me, and you don’t know how much I appreciate that.

I'm somewhere between 50% and 60% finished the first Continua novel's first revision cycle.

For today’s Development Diary, I’m changing it up a little bit. I usually don’t like to show my cards before they’re lined up for the win. But it's a new year. And, in the spirit of shaking off my need to wait until I feel that I’ve reached perfection, I’ve decided to share a scene from a book I’m drafting.

This is my last Development Diary of 2015 and I’d like to take a moment to review my progress so far. I planned to be where I am, but a lot of where I am is an unplanned, but a pleasant surprise.

When I started building the SOPC world, I decided to create a place that wasn’t so strange that the learning curve would require a glossary as prerequisite study, but also different enough that there was always something new to discover around every turn of the page. Today’s Development Diary is about one such discovery. Its origins began as a means to improve a story, but end as a new piece of SOPC lore.

Today’s Development Diary directly correlates my short story First Blood. It’s the first story I’ve released in the Seed of Prophecy Continuum world.

Worldbuilding is a curious process. Sometimes while writing your story, you’ll find that you need to create all new elements in order to make the world feel tangible. Today, I’d like to share one of these instances.

The current draft of the world map in my epic fantasy novel.

The revision and editing begins!