Official drop on the 21st
This chapter is dedicated to explaining the situation to my returning readers, and showing exactly where I’ve changed things.
Love yall!
Beacon from Beyond is my first story and, as such, I could have improved greatly on my early chapters, stylistically. I decided to do a large rewrite of the story, closer to a detailed edit than actually changing anything.
The plot will stay the same, it will simply be smoother to read now and there are some portions where I’ve added certain details that people wanted to see earlier in the story, rather than having to wait a long time for it to come to fruition.
Initially, I’d intended to just re-release the entire book again so that returning readers wouldn’t have to wait for newer chapters, but I’ve been told by 4 separate authors that if I do that, the book will be completely buried for algorithm reasons.
Worry not though, returning readers. I don’t intend to take a super long time in getting everyone caught up either. One month at the maximum is my goal, and I’m going to “store” chapters depending on how long I take so I can continue at a rapid pace until I’m caught up with my usual schedule.
Basically, if it takes a month to release, I’ll release a month-worth of chapters when the rewrite is done, so that returning readers will have a large chunk of new material instead of having to do yet more waiting.
That being said! My official re-release is on the 25th, so even though the initial drop is on the 21st, the countdown for banking chapters will start on the 25th.
I won't make you all pick through old material just to get to the newer gems, so here is a list of all changes. Bold means I recommend returning viewers read this section.
I’ve kept things vague to avoid spoilers
Prologue: redone AGAIN to make perspective swaps easier. I promise it's probably the last time guys! (This is like the 8th time btw)
Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.
Chapter 1: Fixed some simple grammatical errors.
Chapter 2: New sentences right after Dei finishes talking to the System and before he is reborn. Corrected a few punctuation and grammatical errors. Fixed bugged Skill descriptions.
Chapter 3: Wording changes on certain things.
Chapter 4: Added more sadness. Fixed some vocabulary and grammar.
Chapter 5: Fixed capitals, periods, and vocabulary. Fixed bugged Skill descriptions.
Chapter 6: Punctuation fixed and confusing ideas clarified.
Chapter 7-10: Slight writing style change
Chapter 11: Style change, heavier foreshadowing, and I think returning viewers should re-read this chapter. Not for any reason, I was just cooking super hard during it and it was incredible to read it again.
Chapter 12: Removed some random lines that weren’t vital. For funsies.
Chapter 13: Removed Herobrine
Chapter 14: Vocabulary correction. Increased repercussions for a particularly disliked character overstepping their boundaries.
Chapter 15: Absolute cinema. Untouched. Fun reread
Chapter 16: Improved Style
Chapter 17-18: drastic stylistic refinement.
Chapter 19: Skill debug
Chapter 20: More style refinement
Chapter 21-22: Slight Skill description reword, and style refinement
Chapter 23: I have added a new half-chapter at the beginning, it is about something many people requested.
Chapter 24: Style refinement
Chapter 25: Surprisingly, nothing.
Chapter 26: Minor foreshadowing change and style refinement
Chapter 27: Fixed a Newtonian misunderstanding.
Chapter 28-29: Style refinement.
Chapter 30: More foreshadowing.
Chapter 31-38: Significant style refinement and notification correction.
Chapter 39: New perspective swap at the end of the chapter.
Chapter 40-45: Style refinement.
Chapter 46: Fixed multiple Interface glitches.
Chapter 47: Added some clarification.
Chapter 48: Motive clarification.
Chapter 49-62: Style refinement
Chapter 63-108: Either negligible changes or no changes.
Chapter 109: Chose a Skill evolution option that I forgot about the first time.
Chapter 110-Epilogue: Either negligible changes or no changes.
