![]() And if I include the couple of tie-in short stories already published, plus a couple that I haven’t pulled together yet–well, that’ll put the two versions side by side.Īnd that’s an issue for all of the short stories. I’m already planning a revised version of “Becoming Lioness” to deal with some of this, but I’ll eventually want to put together a boxed set of the DUAL MAGICS series. That’s not necessarily insurmountable, but it’s sure going to be interesting to deal with. One thing that’s changed won’t be quite so minor: how a character whose ability to use her magic was blocked, gains the use of her magic after all. That’ll mean deleting all of one or two sentences. I can just leave the second brother out altogether. ![]() The birth order of three siblings has changed in the interim, for example. Mostly small things, some of which I can fix with minor adjustments to “Becoming Lioness”. Some things are just minor points that changed between the time “Becoming Lioness” was published three years ago. I realized there’d be an issue back then, but now that I’m up to the actual writing of that part, the problems are a little clearer. interesting to manage, because there are some noticeable differences between the two, as I’ve blogged about once before. You’d think that’d make this section easier, because I’ve sort of already written it. Where the plot line intersects with my already-published short story, “Becoming Lioness”. ![]()
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