America In Another World

Well guys, it's been a journey. Four years of writing. Would have been three years if not for the many disruptions (sorry about that but this thing called life gets in the way XD). I wrote this near the end of high school for me (around 11th grade if I remember correctly) and now it's nearing the end of undergraduate for me XD (I’m currently a junior). 

133 chapters. Around 230,000 words in total. Around 850 pages (based on estimations from Royalroad and Scribblehub). I’m kind of amazed by how much I have written. I remember hating to write 2,000 word essays (I still kinda do but its not that much of a struggle anymore).  

It may be the end of a journey but it isn’t “The End”. I have so much more planned for the future. I’m only in my twenties. Like around 8 more books of very different genres (zombie apocalypse to superhero to war stories). At the rate I'm currently going, I should have all my books I currently planned written out by the time I’m in my fifties. Yeah… hopefully I can write faster in the future. Well I’m still currently in college. I wonder if I will be less busy after I get a job… (I honestly have no clue). 

I have also learned a lot of stuff from writing AIAW. Here’s the two most important things when it comes to overall writing for me. Plan ahead. Write ahead. I had so many times where I wanted to go back because I realized I was missing something or I could write something different that would have been so much better. When I started writing AIAW, I liked the idea of letting things happen when I think it up but it kinda made it hard for my story to actually gain a direction, led me to missing things, and had me struggling to fill in plot holes. 

I have big plans to write a better version of AIAW. This version was always meant to be a draft. I had no idea what I was doing to be honest when I began writing this. I definitely needed to take time to learn how to write better. I will take some time while writing my other books to plan out AIAWR (America in Another World Revamped).  It will include things such as a bigger world, more other-world countries, more fantasy creatures, better magic system, space exploration, actual main characters (this will require a bit of tinkering but I’m planning for a Multiple POV from a few characters that will be there for the entire book, probably a character from each branch of the military or something idk), hopefully better combat scenes, actual economic matters, more complex political maneuvering, diplomacy, mentions of cultural exchange, and more suspenseful/challenging situations. There will probably be even more changes. The ending also definitely need some polishing. This isn’t a complete list but its a start. 

I won’t mind some recommendations for AIAWR… however…

We are not going nuke crazy (y’all have no idea how many requests I get saying to use nukes as if it's like no big deal, I even had people criticize me for not just nuking all the enemies which doesn’t make sense at all). The two times we dropped nuclear bombs on Japan and even today it’s heavily debated whether or not it was justified. And no, unless you can think of a situation that justifies the time (many years) and money (millions of dollars) to reactivate a battleship (or somehow provide evidence it doesn’t need that amount of time and money), I’m not doing that either. Try to be realistic (when it applies to the US military and stuff). Also, no I’m not doing other countries (the research that I had to do just for the US military was a lot). The amount of research I needed to just figure out the US military and political system was a lot (I thought I had a good understanding of the US military before writing this… oh boy was there so much more). Throw in another country or two and here I go trying to figure out said country’s military organization, equipment information, doctrine, etc. I’m pretty sure I’m on some sort of list at this point with how much I have been staring at satellite imagery of US military bases on Google Maps. Sure you can mostly find online where military units are based and what equipment they have (although it doesn’t always say it either) but it doesn’t guarantee they station the vehicles on the base. I scoured satellite imagery to make sure that there were Abrams and Bradleys on base for the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fort Irwin before I decided to include them in the story. 

Anyways, I will probably take a minor rest (or a long one, idk, probably not more than a year) before I start writing my second book. Well I still have to do some planning for it. Since my future books will probably be mostly unrelated genre-wise to AIAW, I probably won’t see you guys come back until I start publishing AIAWR. So I guess I will see you guys once AIAWR gets started. 

Oh yeah, I’m also thinking about writing a spinoff of AIAW after AIAWR. I call it “America in an RPG World” (AIARPGW). S rank Abrams tank XD. I don’t know if this idea would even work but I’m toying with it.

Well… I guess this is goodbye for now. Love y’all!