Hello all! Brief notice to share with you.
The Altered is my entry into the Open Novella contest 2020. That means, however, that it has to remain beneath 40,000 words, and I really struggled with that. Since I knew this book would definitely go beyond the length of a novella, my conclusion was to simply cut this book in half and use this novella as sort of a,,, 'snippet' of what the real novel will be. So this novella, The Altered, will be marked as complete soon and I'd say I'll conclude it around chapter 20.
That being said, I have about 60 chapters scaffolded for this book and will probably end up writing even more. So, naturally, that's past novella length. Once the ONC is over, I will post a NEW version of this book on my profile; it'll have a very similar name and the story will be exactly the same, the only thing that'll change is that it'll be well over 60k words and I'll more than likely polish it up a bit.
So this novella which you're reading right now is just a snippet of the actual The Altered story. Like I said, I'll begin publishing the proper, full version of this once the ONC is over! Take this novella here as a sample of what's going to come soon. As soon as the novel is posted on my profile, I'll add a link to it in the description of this novella and another link right here in this chapter. For now, I hope you enjoy the novella version (this one) of The Altered, and please look forward to the actually proper, larger book that will be published in a few weeks!
(If that was all super confusing, here it is in the simplest form: there will soon be two versions of this book on my profile, and this'll be the short version. The long version won't be out for a little while yet but it'll be polished and will actually tell the whole story instead of cutting off a quarter way through.)
{THIS MAY CHANGE. If this chapter is deleted in the future and the novel is just continued in this book, I may have changed my mind. This is unlikely but there's a chance I'll find an alternate solution to this issue.}
Thank you so much for all those who read and enjoy this novella :D
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The Altered.
Science Fictionguys please don't read this anymore lmao i write totally differently now💋 _________________ In a future where humans are genetically modified -- 'altered' -- at the age of sixteen, the world has been, until now, a safe place. Without changing a per...
