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Hello, this is just an update touching base about my currently running fictions.

Before that, thanks for reading and all the responses. I have been looking over some universal feedback (Issues people have noted in the story over and over again) and will probably make some improvements for book 4 of Deathless.

I am currently still in the office and the next chapter release for Deathless will be delayed, but the scheduling might shift to an earlier period to avoid further workplace complications (likely in the future).

On that note, the current points I will probably try to fix more is to remove some "fight bloat" for deathless. As has been reflected by readers, the climaxes of books 2 and 3 might have gone on too long. This is an issue that needs improvement. I intend to avoid this going on and keep things better paced.

Connected to that is how arcs and tension will be used. Book 4 will have the unofficial theme of "the problems a strong fist can't solve" going for it in the background, so there's that. But more than just the theme, I think I want to make certain arcs progress neater. So expect more single large chapters daily (around 10k or so words) rather than two 5ks like before.

Also, more varied types of tension. But I won't talk so much about that. You'll see in coming chapters.

Now, onto the other stories

Right now, due to very uneven workload spikes, it's been a bit hard to maintain the quality (at all) for both Clads and TTF. There are a few solutions here, and I've been thinking about focusing on Clads, finishing what remains of the story, and then finishing ttf right after. This should not impede Deathless output. I'll be interested in hearing thoughts on this as well.

For now, I'm going to be making some updates. Hopefully, I will have a chapter for everyone soon. Until then, thanks for reading. T

ime to apply some improvements.

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Kittenz 2020

I’m all for giving Clads and TTF the glorious finishes they deserve, if one at a time focus is needed to do it then you should definitely do it!

theoldestdream

I personally did not find the "fight bloat" some have described but I am very excited about seeing shiv use his brain more than his brawl.

Ved

Excited for the coming chapters!!!!

MrSnap

1) I don't think the "fight bloat" would be such an issue if parts of it weren't completely incomprehensible. With clads, a lot of the fights were metaphysical and I could get where the fight scenes were more like dreams than a fight ring. Deathless doesn't have that excuse. I spend some of my time confused about where all the actors are positioned in their fight, their distance, relative size, reach of their weapons, etc. With the recent tarrasque fight, I was confused about who was inside the tarrasque, who was outside, who was close, who was far away, why Shiv couldn't just drain the tarrasque, (but apparently he's kilometers away?), the size and length of the orichalcum pillar, whether it fits in a tarrasque stomach, the size of the sword dimension, the size of the city, etc. The fact that Hawgrave kept changing sizes didn't help at all in this situation. 2) The second issue is all the transcription and grammatical errors. I think a single pass with your eyes or an AI editing tool would allow you to quickly fix all the obvious and confusing errors. But maybe patreon is your editing process?

Dreamstate

I personally didn’t mind the “fight bloat” it felt thematically on point with Shiv been favoured beyond favoured. Keep improving in all you do, tidy up the bits and pieces and enjoy the journey wordsmith.

OstensibleMammal

2) I'm going to try and clean up this issue more. Add more details for the first part, but also try to remove some dictation errors. The editing tool misses a lot of things so it is going to need a very dedicated visual sweep.

GreatCabbage

Didn’t mind all the fighting or “fight bloat” since it seemed on theme. I DO agree that the pacing could be better and that there are some instances (particularly in this latest fight) where the positioning, sizes, and encounters get confusing. Also, why can’t shiv drain the tarrasque? I’m sure there’s a reason, but I haven’t caught it if it’s been mentioned All in all though, you’ve done a tremendous job with your works, especially given the frequency of uploads. Could not be more excited about where they go! Thank you!!!

Singular

While there’s more to draw out the drama, and perhaps a legendary skill upgrade to fully flesh out the potential to “drain vitality” which has been a hard jab at how do we kill that which is sooooo overwhelming if it too can’t die…legendary vitality skill and/or golem with vitality drain, drain, some more, make two golems with drain , drain some more, make more with drain and whatever skills make sense. But I’m not writer and don’t have any big idea soup in my head that would go for or against that plan

Ashen-Shugar

Ive been w you from pretty much the start,Godclads needs justice done to the end of it,Avo"s the old G,however you've really knocked it outa the park w deathless and on a roll,maybe delve into some side shit like some the history on how Valors son created Shiv,oh and I just remembered the last chapter prologue you have Uldrall mentioning he tampered with the fetus of Shiv And Adam,does that mean Adams gonna have some super power too!!???

Ashen-Shugar

Yes I as well am excited to see shiv come up with something besides "Hulk smash"🤣😂 even tho we love shiv the way he is!!

Ashen-Shugar

Yeah couldn't agree more,it's gotta be hard writing all 3..

Phillipbeykj

It's probably talking about Adams' unborn sister.

LUXRUS

I need the chapter 😞 im getting the shakes