To My Sunflower 103 ★-Captain's Log-★

This chapter is for non story notes and updates that are too big to put on Twitter. Realized this was handy after all. Goes at back of the bus, not to derail the flow of the story. 

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[Proof run]-26320

I've corrected some rank issues in earlier war posts. Sean's rank is a corpsman not corporal. Although he was of a seniority equivalent. I'm going through some grammar fixes at the moment since I'm in the final act. Especially on dialect now that I have an updated tool to pick these up for me. Well, most of them anyway. I estimated about ten chapters are left to the end. 

[After Black Rain]-28220

I'll post a light gift chapter after Black Rain. An attempt at another Tama POV and hopefully add some comical lightness to the heavy drama. Then it's back to Hinata for a number of chapters.  Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

[The Moment of Truth]-15220

Oh, man. That moment has arrived. The next three chapters will contain the bomb drop and lots of drama. When I first wrote to the prompt, I hadn't really thought about continuing the story at that time.  Then afterwards, had considered it to be a novella and was doing whatever I could to avoid that moment. Now that it's a book and an ensemble drama. It's one of those events that I can't avoid.   

All I can say is get the tissues ready. Well, I'm saying to that to me, since I'm a weirdo for crying for my characters when they undergo tragic moments. 

Yeah.  The next three posts released on week 17/02 are going to be heavy.

[Final Volume Cover Release]-6220 1

I've released the final volume cover and story wrap-up. As the coming chapters will mark the end of Eiji's volume 3 POV. Bringing us to the finale volume. This cover has a Tama silhouette and plane. The washed out colors to represent cinematics. Hope it looks OK.  

[Back From Kyoto]-2220

I'm back from touring around Kansai region.  I'm happy to see  that my research wasn't far off the mark. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to visit Hiros.h.i.+ma first-hand.  I went to the Kyoto and Osaka city libraries and was able to read some wartime references and accounts.  Some broke my heart. There was a story about this young man who was a 7-year-old boy at the time when the bomb dropped. He and his older brother (by three years) had lost their family in one hit. They were staying with their aunt at the time, whilst their baby sister and parents went to the main town.  3 km was the distance that separated their family for life.  There were more stories like this in the library. Collected in anthology volumes.  I took some notes. 

What does this mean for the book? 

I'm back and so are the chapters.  I've planned out 5 x new chapters to date, and there're loads more to come before the final volume is ended.   

The new release chapters will kick off this coming Friday (07.02), and chapter releases scheduled for every Friday thereafter.  

"Only one chapter release weekly?!  Are you s.h.i.+tting me?" You may say (or not).  Fufufu.  Isn't there something called TGIF here?  That's all I'll say on the matter.

[New Cover]

Kind of nervous about the new cover. I thought, screw it. If the ML stuff with harem can have babes with bazooka b.o.o.bs about to fall out of string bikinis, I can have my Michaelangelos.  I was trying for a timeless love connection thing. Colors of time and so forth. 

Anyway. This the cover. Until WN tells me to change it.  Need to send them a spec sheet I guess. I'll wait for the editor to ask.

[Holiday's Boring]

Did some chapters. Changed the cover. Still, not convinced on it. Screw it! Jesus-Eiji it is. Until I can think of something better. Besides, it's Christmas break anyway.  

Update: Sc.r.a.pped the Jesus-Eiji version. As it looked really tacky and annoyed me. Went back to basics. Will leave with just flowers for now, until something better pops up.

[Before I go on holiday] 

In going to bring a happy thank-you special for the lovely gifts. 

Q&A Time: Why the dual perspectives? And chop and changed about?

I dunno. Thought it would be a good idea at the time. Never envisioned this story to be more than 60K worth of words. At that point, it would've been fine. It's now on its way to doubling that amount. This makes the volumes a bit messy. Since I'm writing to this format, too late to change now. I think it also helps with character design immersion. Still, it's hard writing from two setting perspectives, so not to break the continuity of the whole story line. If it doesn't work, I'll revise at the end of the story. When I dust it off and walk away.

Proof Updates

[191219] Duties - Corrected November to April. Tokyo/Doolittle Raid was 18 April 1942.

[Happy Holidays]

I'm taking a break from writing for Christmas and end of the year holidays. I've had a h.e.l.l of a year. Been on/off work. Now I'm a NEET. No idea what tomorrow brings. I have no routine set for my life now. I just need to find a way to survive. Padded my car for the season just in case. 

Hey, thanks for reading to date.  I'll be back in the new year with content to finish. And maybe even earlier if I can't tear myself away.

Hope everyone has a safe, happy and kick-a.s.s end of year and start of new year.

Cheers to 2020

[Explicit Scene Removal]

I removed the explicit scene that was between Akira and Hinata from the book as I felt it wasn't necessary and broke the flow.  If anyone is curious, it can be found at my Love One Shot's book.

[It's Back]

This story was moved to Tapread a while back, but Webnovel was keen to contract it.

It's back by Webnovel's demand!

I'll be adding in new ones to completion.

The story is half-way done, with intentions to complete by middle of next year.

Thank you Webnovel for giving this story a chance.

I hope all goes well. Yep. I designed and poster-worked the cover with licensed images.