Hello, everyone!
It's been quite a journey, hasn't it?
When I first started writing Isn't the Thing You Call Electricity... Magicka?, I had a simple idea: What would happen if an Electrical Engineering student suddenly found herself in a world where magic existed?
Would she simply accept magic as something beyond human understanding? Or would she approach it the same way an engineer approaches an unfamiliar system—by asking questions, testing theories, making mistakes, and eventually figuring out how things work?
That question became the foundation of this story.
And honestly, I never expected myself to become so attached to it.
What started as an idea about electricity and magic gradually became something more. There was Lumen, a girl trying to make sense of a world she barely understood while struggling with memories she could no longer recall. There was Kael, whose knowledge of engineering and experience in this unfamiliar world opened possibilities that Lumen had yet to imagine.
And, of course, there was the idea that even in a world filled with extraordinary powers, something as ordinary as engineering could make an extraordinary difference.
However, as I continued developing my stories, I realized something.
I wanted to give this idea a world of its own.
A New World, A Familiar Beginning
I'm officially announcing that I'm working on a reimagined version of this novel, titled:
THE GIRL WHO REWIRED MAGIC
This isn't simply a revision where I correct grammar, improve dialogue, or make the chapters longer.
I'm rebuilding the story in an entirely original fantasy world, complete with its own history, civilizations, magical principles, political conflicts, and mysteries.
The original story was heavily inspired by The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, a game I've enjoyed exploring. That inspiration will always have a special place in this project's history.
But I want the new version to become something that can stand on its own.
A world where magic isn't merely something people cast, but something that can be studied, questioned, and perhaps even engineered.
A world where introducing a new technology might improve people's lives while simultaneously threatening the institutions that have governed them for generations.
And a world where the answers to certain questions might be considerably more complicated than our characters initially believe.
What Happens to Lumen and Kael?
Don't worry. I'm not abandoning the characters who made this story what it is.
Lumen and Kael will remain central to the reimagined novel.
Lumen will still be an Electrical Engineering student who finds herself in an unfamiliar world, struggling to remember who she was while discovering what she might become.
Kael will still be someone who shares her knowledge of the modern world, although his experiences, motivations, and secrets will receive considerably more attention.
Their relationship will remain an important part of the story, but I want it to develop naturally through their experiences, disagreements, discoveries, and the decisions they make.
I'm also expanding the story's ensemble cast. Other characters will have their own ambitions, conflicts, relationships, and perspectives rather than existing solely to support the protagonists.
After all, a world shouldn't feel as though it only begins moving whenever its main characters enter a room.
The Same Story, But Not Quite
For those who have already read the eight published chapters, you'll recognize many of the important moments in the beginning.
The mysterious arrival.
The unfamiliar magic.
The experiments.
The encounter between two people who understand electricity in a world that doesn't necessarily understand it the same way.
And the realization that changing how a civilization uses power might have consequences far beyond making a lamp glow.
Those ideas remain at the heart of the story.
However, the journey surrounding them will change.
Some scenes will be expanded, others will be reinterpreted, and new events will help establish the characters and the world more naturally.
I want to approach the reimagining with greater attention to continuity, worldbuilding, character development, and the consequences of each discovery.
Most importantly, I want the engineering to matter.
If Lumen manages to develop something revolutionary, I want readers to understand why it works within the story's rules, what limitations it has, and why its existence matters.
Because innovation isn't just about inventing something.
It's about what happens after the invention starts changing people's lives.
One More Thing: A Shared Universe
There's another exciting development I want to share.
The Girl Who Rewired Magic will exist in the same original fictional universe as another story I'm developing:
I Woke Up in an Unwritten World.
This doesn't mean you'll need to read one novel to understand the other.
Each story will have its own protagonists, conflicts, and central narrative.
However, they will share an underlying world, allowing their histories, mysteries, and occasional connections to become part of something larger.
I won't reveal too much about those connections yet.
Where's the fun in spoiling the mysteries before the characters discover them?
To Everyone Who Read the Original
Thank you.
Whether you enjoyed the engineering discussions, the fantasy setting, the characters, or simply the absurd idea of applying Ohm's Law to a world filled with magic, I'm grateful that you gave this story a chance.
The original eight chapters represent the beginning of this project, and I'm not pretending they never existed.
They helped establish the ideas, characters, and questions that made me want to develop the story further.
The reimagined version will build upon that foundation while taking the freedom necessary to become its own novel.
I don't have an official publication date to announce yet. I'd rather spend the time developing the story properly than rush the process simply to get chapters published.
But the project is moving forward.
And when The Girl Who Rewired Magic begins, I hope you'll give Lumen and Kael another chance to introduce themselves.
There are still experiments to conduct, mysteries to investigate, and an entire world waiting to discover what happens when someone starts questioning the way magic has always worked.
After all, there's one thing engineering has taught me.
Just because something works doesn't mean it can't be improved.
And that, perhaps, is the beginning of everything.
Thank you for reading, and I'll see you in the reimagined world!
- The Author
P.S. I wonder what happens when you introduce an engineer to a magical civilization that has never heard of electrical resistance. Surely nothing controversial, right?