User blog comment:Brandon Rhea/THE CHOSEN ONE content release coming soon!/@comment-20644-20120903032309

I wanted to give a bit of an update here, before I give a larger update in a few days (once I sort out some questions I have for myself about the story). Of the three chapters I referred to in the initial blog post here, the third one ended up being pushed back to be a later chapter, and two new chapters are being added between it (meaning what I referred to earlier as chapter 3 is now chapter 5). The new third chapter has been completed, and I’m currently working on the new chapter 4. The previously written chapter will then continue (with some tweaks) from there. Edits have also been made to the first two chapters to make them read better.

What’s been interesting to me is the definitive feeling that this really is The Chosen One, not just another draft that will be discarded. I first came up with original draft of The Chosen One in 2007, after seeing this trailer for a fan-edit to A New Hope and some of its focus on the desert aspects of the story. I wanted to write a desert-based story, like Dune, one that felt like A New Hope. There were some elements of that in my first two drafts, and now my intention for The Chosen One is as a full-blown desert epic. I really feel like I’m finally writing the story I wanted to write back in 2007, but didn’t yet have the skill, ability, or story elements to.

I know my characters. I know my themes. I know my message. I know my story. I’m very confident in this and I hope that, once I begin to release it, you enjoy reading it as much as I’m enjoying developing and writing it.