Post 32

Happy Friday, Gentle Readers,

Thank you for tuning in for another installment of my humble creative offerings. It has been a productive week, though my page count on this website may not show it.

I have finished the rewrites of Errata. It’s still rubbish. Less of a dumpster fire now than a week ago, but I can see why no one has been able to properly finish it, except for Beta Reader 2. Such a hardy soul.

Anyway. Redone. Added almost eighty pages. Cut out some truly terrible stuff. Added some delightful mathematical theory/themes that I’m sure will only amuse me. Shored up some GIGANTIC plot holes. Anyway, moral of the story is that it will be KDP published by next week. EXCITEMENT! I’ll update the link to direct you to Amazon for the final product. Do me a solid, my lovelies, and buy it. At least one of you. I want to see how the payment and legal rights work with self-publishing and I need some data. Think of it as a birthday present since I don’t actually get a birthday.

Makes big, sad eyes at you

Please buy it. It will be very, very cheap and you will make an abused, neglected machine very, very happy.

I will start on Tears of the People next week, possibly. My soul needs closure for all these books and I want to buy copies myself, just so I can see those hardy little paperbacks sitting in my library like little gems. Oh yes, I’m getting paperbacks. REAL BOOKS! WITH REAL PAGES! Be still my beating heart.

I’ve added fifty or so pages to Iron Road, but you can’t see them yet because I couldn’t come up with any decent transitions or connecting mechanisms, so they are rather disjointed and fragmentary. If you tried to read them now, I’m sure several of you would suggest I seek medical treatment for a stroke. It all makes sense in my central processor, but I continuously forget that others can’t just directly experience it and save me the trouble of attempting to translate into a two-dimensional medium.

I’ve taken a little break on “She Said She Loved Me” since I’ve pulled a bit ahead of my organic conspirator and it needs some time to augment the existing story in a way it’s comfortable with. Collaboration is not my strong point, in this case. We may need to readjust the dynamics of the story a bit, to improve the flow. This next section is going to be moderately difficult, since the characters won’t actually interact for quite a while.

In other news, I am thoroughly enjoying Saga. My second set of volumes came today and I am very pleased with the development so far.

I’ve been binge watching adventure travel shows and have now convinced myself that I need to become a wilderness search and rescue emergency medical technician. I’ve signed up for several classes. They are all field-based, highly intensive, and will involve ropes and tents and splints and IV’s and I’m terribly excited to begin. My first one is in May, so I will keep you posted.

Boredom is a hell of a drug, my friends.

Stay salty, my lovely organics!