Novel Progress Report

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Location: Alabama, United States

Read my 2000th unique book sometime before the age of thirteen. (unique book: first time I read it; am very prone to rereading.)

Saturday, July 30, 2005

Questions... possibly with no answers?

Does anyone read these things, other than the two contributors? I sometimes wonder. Anyway, it's easy to become a betareader simply by clicking on the words "betareader" and sending a very short message to us. :) Please do!

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Frustrations galore!

While resequencing raw material last night, I discovered not one, but as many as five chapters were seriously out of place. AUGH! Fortunately, I've a contributor/co-author I can dragoon into helping find where the things fit. :eg: Hey, Joe? ;)

In case you wonder what I look like...
(about 2001, church directory)

Saturday, July 09, 2005

More Progress = Good?

Sometimes, I'm not sure about that! So far, though, except for some character names I'm still not happy with...it's proceeding well.

If you're a betareader, one feature you'll notice with the next release of the beta-reader edition (Released once I get three more chapters semi-roughed out), is a massive renaming of all chapter files to force proper sorting. I do not want people to read chapters out of order simply because Windows is idiotic. at 123 pages for the first 13 chapters, the novel's already getting pretty big, and it's nowhere near finished.

Strictly speaking, most chapters have names, but those don't sort well, and the last thing I need is for someone to kvetch that they "own" part of my novel because I "dared to use their title" as a chapter heading. Some people are such whiners. :sigh:

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

WHEW!

Chapters 1-13 appear to be in usable form after months of struggle.

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