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Hello everyone! I’m sure you’re all wondering why I’ve updated a story that was completed over two years ago, and this chapter is to help ease some of that confusion. As of 8/8/23, “Your Presence is a Dream in this Godforsaken Nightmare” has officially been rewritten! Now, what does that mean exactly, and why did it happen?
Well, I chose to rewrite this story for a few reasons. My writing style has changed over the past two years, and this fanfiction has always been something close to my heart. I wanted it to be better, both for my sake and for my reader’s sake, which is the main reason for the rewrite. I also am still working on the sequel, and wanted the style of writing to match for both.
This rewrite mainly included the standardization of POV (to the best of my abilities), deeper characterization, description, and foreshadowing, as well as the addition of some new scenes/minor plot details. While the main plot has stayed the same, as well as the overall sequence of events, I wanted to flesh out everything just a little bit more, both to improve this story and to set some things up more effectively for the sequel. If you liked the original version of this story, I highly recommend reading the rewrite. It’s the same story, but does contain a lot of new elements (as well as an additional chapter!) that the original did not contain.
I hope you all enjoy; I am so so so grateful for the overwhelming support of this fanfiction, and am excited to keep working on the sequel. I’m going to do some further editing and updating on the sequel in the coming months, but nothing as major as this. This rewrite isn’t perfect by any means (I don’t have a beta reader and I’m still a novice writer at best), but I am a lot happier with it now than I was with the original. In the following few days I will be adjusting the end notes, formatting, checking spelling, and so on. Please bear with me while I do so; if comments don't make sense for the chapter, or something like that, know that this is because of the rewrite and it's unfortunately not something I can really fix at the moment.
Thank you for reading,
–CB
Also, if anyone is interested, here are the stats for the original vs. rewrite
Original stats:
Word count - 61,018
Chapter count - 17
Start/end - 5/7/21-6/22/21
Rewrite stats:
Word count - 71,273
Chapter count - 18
Start/end - 6/20/23-8/8/23