World of Kedra and Maledictus Terra Progress

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Hey everyone! Zak Ludick here from Cape Town, South Africa.

This is an update post about how my progress is going in my two book series. A little while ago, I made the determination that I MUST get published. I have a massive epic fantasy world with multiple stories already written and due to life circumstances, I had paused my Great Work - World of Kedra.

Maledictus Terra

In the meantime, I began co-writing a story with @lex-zaiya here on Hive. We would write between 500-1000 words on average each, every week and send the story back and forth that way... and we ended up writing two full novel-sized stories and we are now busy with a 3rd that is likely more of an Epic book length!

So... after conferring with @lex-zaiya, we decided that we shall publish the first book of Maledictus Terra: Mortis Custos. I am don't the first editing pass and I am around 80-90% done just doing a basic read-through and fixing some basic spelling errors here and there that we missed.

I have not re-written a sentence yet.

But I am not just reading. I am also recording characters and important facts into a Spreadsheet that Lex and I can both access. I have also been putting together the basics for creating a map.

Until now, we worked without a map but as things become more solid and "known", it has become increasingly important to build this map.

This might actually need me to skim through Book 2 and 3 to pull out higher-level plot devices and Proper Nouns.

Usually when I am working on my own, there is a bit of world planning that goes on before the fiction, or at least this is what happened and what WORKS later on. I used to "pants" it until a plot broke under the weight of its own contradictions or veering off into a incomprehensible and vague tangent.

So I have learned that it becomes really important to build something that details these things. So I am busy retroactively building a world lore and plot lore system for myself and Lex to further collaborate on.

The idea is still that once I have done what I needed to do on Mortis Custos, that I would then go to World of Kedra and work on what I am looking at getting published.

*BTW - By getting Published, I mean that we are going to self-publish on Amazon KDP.

World of Kedra

So what is the progress on World of Kedra?

Well, the idea here was that I immerse myself into the lore and world of the book so I began with Nations Under Siege(Series name): Book 1 - Might of the Lands.

I have read the whole Book 1 and WOW I am super excited about it because I really enjoyed reading that book! I really want to read the 2nd book and the whole series really. But I also need to put time and effort into Maledictus Terra and thus I have to put that down for a bit.

I have a stand alone book that is already written, but I think that Dread Knight and Mortis Custos are too similat to one-another that this would then confuse potential readers.

Therefore I shall need to do something else. I do NOT want to start from Nations Under Siege. The idea would to be a few Novels that are stand alone or part of a smaller series that does not directly involve those 5 books.

I have yet to determine what story the first World of Kedra book will be to get published.

I think I shall do some digging and then ask the members of Hive for some of input on the matter!

Until then - have a great week further!

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