Over the last little while, I've been going through my prior chapters for Astray to make revisions and perform further polishing. I believe the current versions are pretty solid right now. I don't expect any further changes to them, unless I spy a somehow still lingering stray typo.

This followed more significant changes in October. Originally, Astray featured other alien species, FTL, extra-solar travel, and other high-concept sci-fi elements. But as noted in an earlier journal, I paired that back quite a bit in April. However, I was never totally satisfied with those changes. They didn't go far enough for me. I wanted my setting to focus on a single world and it's surrounding solar system, and on one alien species. I want both to be very rich, detailed, and as organic feeling as possible. I want to focus on depth as opposed to breadth. Honestly, though, with how little any of that really featured into the story, it ultimately changed very little.

Also over the last while, I've been collecting my worldbuilding notes—living, and not-highly-polished, documents that'll keep expanding. They're over at Thirrik.com along with some of my writing. The current Astray draft is also in PDF and EPUB formats over there.