when comes the dawn monthly update [April 2026]
We were soooo productive this April
THE STATISTICS
the draft → 59,181 words
words written this month → 6,567 words
average word count per session → 821 words
words written this year → 13,518 words
STORY NOTES
• [ACT ONE - THE IMPERESSA EUCLEIA] is finally finished!!! You guys have no idea how much of a personal achievement this is, considering I usually end up giving up and restarting right before act 1 ends. I've previously written some chapters for act 2, but with the current direction of act 1 and some of the stuff I've outlined, those chapters will probably go through a lot of rework as well
• I've rearranged Nike's introductory chapter again, and also switched some of his chapters around as well. So he makes a brief appearance in Fenice's POV in chapter 5, then afterwards transitions to his first POV chapter in Chapter 6
• Act 1 starts with Fenice's POV and ends with Nike's POV which I think is really sexy
• A lot of what I did this month was pretty much just filling in gaps and doing some light revision on certain scenes to make everything flow very well
• Really want to give a shoutout to @kaatiba for being my alpha reader!!! Sharing my work with her has done wonders for my motivation <3333 Reading her wip in return was also such a pleasure
EXCERPT
The sharp snap of a closing fan echoed throughout the room as Fenice's eerie little eyes opened. "You're going to make a fool of yourself if you keep drinking anymore." Those were the first words she'd spoken to him today.
He bared his teeth at her. Not even married and she's already nagging him. "It's only water."
"You wouldn't be so happy to see that servant if it was just water."
By happenstance that Nike suspected was completely engineered, the guard Philo was given the task of delivering pitchers of water for them to drink during their fast. Philo—at this point the only half-decent Aetierian Nike's met—in a small act of kindness, decided to sneak in pitchers of wine along with water for Nike to make this whole ordeal even slightly less miserable.
Nike rolled his eyes. "With how watered down this wine is, it might as well be just water."
It clearly didn't work. Or maybe he just needed more wine.
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