February started on the road.
Somewhere between airports, long flights, and the quiet moments that travel gives you, the work on Aurenloch continued to evolve.
After completing early drafts of Chapters 1 and 2, we made a decision that every writer eventually faces: we went back to the beginning.
Chapter 1 needed to breathe again.
Frakkor’s pressure is rising in the story, and as that tension grew, we realised the foundation had to be stronger. So we circled back and started tightening the research, aligning the narrative even closer to the real events that shaped the South African wine industry.
It sometimes feels like two steps forward and three steps back.
But that’s the process.
Stories like this are not written in a straight line. They evolve. They shift. Characters grow sharper, the world becomes clearer, and the threads between fiction and truth tighten.
The exciting part is that the story is beginning to reveal itself.
Alongside the writing, we’ve also been working on a series of short inventory videos to explain the Aurenloch concept. Translating such a layered world: the Four Earths, the Dominions, the real history behind the fiction into something people can quickly grasp is proving to be its own creative and thrilling challenge.
But progress is happening.
Slowly, the pieces are starting to move into place.
March feels like the month where the foundation began to solidify.
Brad
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