Choose-Your-Own-Demise Rewrite

Many writers don’t revisit past work, preferring to move forward and not look back.

This is a noble way, but I think we should improve on the things we have written to make our stories truly shine.

I’m not afraid of trying different things.

Back in 2024, I wrote a short novel called Lowella.

This story is special to me because it was the first time I tried out psychological horror.

The story makes you uncomfortable in a creepy way because of the main character. The titular character, Lowella, is a streamer that has taken over the fictional streaming site Flicker.

But what makes the story hold together is the notion of whether the main character is mentally ill, or if there is something more to Lowella than it seems at first glance.

It involves a witch-doctor detective and a tropical storm, and even a mysterious boy that comes out of nowhere in a magical realism twist.

The story isn’t quite where I’d like it to be, so in Q4 2026, I will release this choose-your-own-demise style novel.

This novel will be a full-length work that builds upon the base that Lowella founded two years ago.

There will be a single way to make it to the end of the story, and ONLY one way. Many plot threads will lead to dead ends where you die.

The book will be a third-person limited perspective mixed with second-person viewpoints.

Writing a novel like this is insanely hard because you must plan out how to map out the results of choices without spoiling too much. Flipping around in the book will annoy me (to write), but I’m interested in making an eBook that can be clicked through and the classic paperback format for these old-style novels.

I read many of these novels as a child and loved finding the right endings.

This novel tackles contemporary issues like internet culture, the dangers of fan devotion, and Taino mythology, not to mention mental illness.

This will be the right version of the story that I had originally intended in 2024, but I had less time than I would have liked.

This year I’m all in on writing for clients hard and gently releasing my own projects. My philosophy is art can wait with current models of publishing by shadow dropping almost everything.

Crown of the Orphic Queen will release at the start of March. I’m proud of that story too. It’s a bit of a twist, and highly weird, but I love that story.

Lowella Re: Wind’s difficulty will make for a significant challenge. And yes, the name is a double entendre.

Please look forward to it!