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Apparently they will trial it in 2022.

I started writing better dialog when I remembered my old D&D sessions and started actually role-playing scenes in my head.

In order to do this, I had to make generic character sheets. Never more than 1 page, because this is about getting a full character concept at a glance. Every character that appears in multiple portions of the book for extended interaction with the main character(s) gets a sheet.

Now you can put your characters 'in a room' together. You're thinking like they think. You know their education, their beliefs, and the events that shaped them. You know how well they know who they're talking too, and how much they trust the other people. So what would they actually say?

That's how I improved. I'm sure that it would be different for everyone, but give it a try.

An excellent question!

Well, in my youth I fell in love with a concept from an old sci-fi novel called 'Flowers for Algernon'. All my life I wished that there was something in the realm of fantasy that covered the topic of shifting intelligence.

I got sick of waiting, so I wrote it. Objectively speaking, it's a cool concept that simply hasn't been touched much in the realm of fantasy. My reviewers say that the characters are the strongest part of the novel. They're as 'real' as I could make them. I hope people find them funny, and exciting, and sad at the same time. Just like life.

It's only been out a little more than a month, so we won't know Amazon's valuation on the September KENP (Kindle page reads) for another couple of weeks. But here's what we know so far:

Our cut of the pure sales is around 700 US, so we just need to add what we project for KENP. As of this moment, over around 33 days, we have 201,727 pages read. My best guess on the fund value would be around $0.0045 per page. So around $900.

So total in just over a month is around $1600, and we expect month 2 to ramp upwards sharply as word of positive reviews gets out. It's a good sign for a book that had a one time, $200 ad budget. :)

Prepare to be wrung, my friend. :)

But seriously, there's a sequel right? So it can't be QUITE that sad!