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Hi! It's me, Alexis.
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Back in November, I started a little story off the top of my head,
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just to see what might happen. Would it go anywhere? No idea. But
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it felt like it might have legs - or tentacles, considering. That
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story became 'Voortrekker', of which today's update concludes Part
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2 - and brings the total word count up to just over forty-one
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thousand, with the story still not halfway done. Legs, indeed! Or
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tentacles, considering.
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To start from a simple vignette of strangeness and hope on a world
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orbiting a new sun, and become a tale of love, politics, warfare,
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and strangeness spanning the entire solar system and beyond...I'm
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amazed and delighted that my little story has come so far and grown
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so much! And none of it would ever have happened if it hadn't been
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for everyone who's participated along the way, both in helping me
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find the story I want to tell and you want to read, and in the
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Cosmic Voyage project overall.
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In particular, I want to thank ~tomasino, from whose forehead the
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concept sprang full-grown, and ~kensanata, who mentioned it in a
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place where I could see it. Had both those things not happened,
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this story wouldn't have either! And perhaps I'm not the only one
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who thinks that'd be a shame.
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Above all, though, I want to thank each and all of you who are here
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reading this now, whether you've followed Voortrekker since the
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beginning or have just come along now to see what all the fuss is
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about. No one writes in a vacuum, even if sometimes it feels that
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way. Your critique and your compliments have shaped this story
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every bit as much as I have, and on days when I feel as if I can't
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possibly string three words together in a way that makes sense,
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remembering that you're out there waiting for the next installment
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gives me the motivation I need to try my best. Thank you all!
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This sounds like a valedictory, but it's not one. Not except for
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now, at least - Voortrekker has become by far the largest creative
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project I've ever taken on, and I need a break! So I'm taking
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one. For the next few weeks, I'm going to be recharging my
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batteries, attending to various boring life things that I've lately
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let slide in order to give this story the attention it deserves,
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and preparing to carry the plot forward in Part 3.
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I might write a thing or two of another sort, too, in that
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meantime. If I do, you can find it at https://lexie.space, where
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all my writing lives. You can also find out how to contact me
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there, if that's something you care to do. In particular, if you
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have thoughts on the story so far or where you might like to see it
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go from here, please do let me know! I won't make you a promise
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that I'll incorporate those ideas, because it'd be a promise I
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can't know for sure whether I can keep. But this isn't just my
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story - it's *ours*. So I'll do my best to tell it in the way we
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all like best!
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Regular updates will resume April 7, on the same
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Wednesdays-and-Sundays schedule. In the meantime: stay awesome,
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check out https://lexie.space for more of my writing, and let me
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hear from you if you've got something to say!
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Love, Lexie.
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