[Clovidequano Dovatha]

I'm hoping I can get at least the first draft of my main story completed by my next birthday somehow, but not sure if I'll actually be able to do that here well enough just yet. I now have just under 90 days to do it in here, it seems. For my next birthday's in mid-February, as many may know here by now, in truth, and I still have at least six to eight more chapters to write for it than I currently have written for it.

I've been trying to cut out many likely needless words for already-existing text and all, but it's not as easy to do as I might want it to be. I'll probably have to cut at least 50-100 pages of overall text for it, or even rewrite much or all of the entire story, in order to tighten it up and all, between the first draft and the final draft of it, I think, in any case.

At the rate I'm going for it, I'll probably have the first draft of the story end up at around 500 pages, more or less. I'd like to perhaps have the final draft top out at about 400 manuscript pages, more or less, for its main text, and perhaps have about 25 or so pages, more or less, of related reference material, for the manuscript. Reference material like a glossary of terms and various maps, for instance, if possible.

To be honest, I don't actually expect a final draft of this entire story to be done well enough here somehow within just three to six months of the first draft's completion, folks. But hopefully I'll somehow actually have a suitably good one done here before November 2023. Lord willing and all, of course, you know. Once I have Lighting Up the Darkness's first draft done, perhaps I can start work on Book Two of a potential series here, I think.

Although I'm not quite sure yet just how things would then perhaps go in that next story for a potential book series, seeing as the narrator of this story probably won't be a major part of Book Two for it, if he's even in it at all somehow as a character. Without potentially spoiling things too much here, I plan to have another major character narrate the majority of Book Two. Book Three would probably be mostly narrated by the special lady for Book Two's main narrator. Then Book Four would probably be mostly narrated by the chief advisor to the primary narrators of Books Two and Three, if I somehow do manage to get at least that far here at some point, in due turn, with a story series here, according to the Lord's willing and all, of course. After that, I haven't really figured out just who'd potentially be the main narrators for later possible volumes, to be completely honest here with you all.

What will be, will be, as the Lord then allows and all, I'm sure, in any case. I may not even be able to somehow get to a potential fifth book in a series like this, in truth. But we'll all just have to see what the future still holds for me and many others in this world, you know, folks. If I ever do manage it, somehow, with the Lord's grace and all, then so be it. If not, then so be it as well, for sure. I still will seek to follow Him in my own mortal life, as best as I can, for as long as He still allows me to live it here in this world, most definitely, come what may in this world of ours, good or bad, though. CD out.