“Oh, yes! Every few years there’s a runner traumatized by the Test. We catch them before they leave campus these days. Most head to their favorite spot for a bit of quiet and a cry—the Mound or the Gym, even the Library—but in 1966, Nelson Jekyll made it all the way to Stockton due to a particularly generous van of hippies. Poor boy was stoned out of his mind and had lost his virginity thrice over before we found him…”
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Mice and Men And All That Jazz
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
First Toe Dip Of Edit Hell Survived
Edit Hell is over.
Some pages are...very red. With whole added conversations and descriptions written on the back of them. Others...were perfect and barely have one or two marks. Anyone else get paranoid when this happens? There must be something wrong! Where are you?!?
I'm taking a week off (outside of entering some of the 600 paper pages into the laptop each day or I'll never finish before release) until my next doctor appointment with the Spine Peoples at the start of April. My mind is really exhausted at the moment. Not a state you want to write the finale of your novel in. Plus, outside of a couple episodes of Brooklyn 99 before bed I haven't watched any TV or movies and I really want to watch Shogun and the Gentlemen and Invincible S2 and...a billion other things.
Spine is still holding up moderately decent-ish, but RFA could need redone as earlier as May and next appointment I'll be talking with the doctors about whatever the MRI showed, so we'll see about that too. So, April I'll take a shot at finishing the last couple chapters. Lot happens in them and every chapter in this novel is MASSIVE so I'll try my best. Will be having fun doing it! Welf and KH have some very intense moments in this novel. After that I plan a complete readthrough of FM1-FM6 to get all that info back into my brain since I've written a few scenes in this book where I'm like...that might be accurate, Richard, you need to check.
But i don't want to check, continuity is so stupid! Who cares what floor their dorms are on? Who cares if he took Sabine to the Winter Ball or not? Did he take Vicky too or did I think it but not write it? I can't remember! Waaah!
Your fault for giving a shit. Could've just been a hack writing generic harem LitRPG, but noooo...
Waaah!
And then a computer edit and a final kindle edit.
Then ya'll get to enjoy it too.
Monday, March 25, 2024
Writing Order TBD? (Question for Fans)
So if I do split the last school story, which is looking more and more likely (currently in the middle of a going on three week mini Edit Hell btw and I'm losing my FUCKING MIND!) there's a bit of a question on what I should focus next.
It would either be...
Version A
The Foul Mouth and the Seismic Semester (Second To Last School Story)
The Foul Mouth and the War to End All Wars (Last School Story, direct sequel to Seismic)
Vicky Welf and the Mancy Masquerade (FM6.99)
The Foul Mouth and the Most Obvious Trap (FM7)
The Foul Mouth and the Runaway Rumble (FM8)
Or...
Version B
The Foul Mouth and the Seismic Semester (Second To Last School Story)
Vicky Welf and the Mancy Masquerade (FM6.99)
The Foul Mouth and the Most Obvious Trap (FM7)
The Foul Mouth and the War to End All Wars (Last School Story, direct sequel to Seismic)
The Foul Mouth and the Runaway Rumble (FM8)
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Version A would be sensible just because I'm already in the school mindspace with all the characters and its an easy continuation, but...Version B would give you the mainline real juicy shit quicker.
Basically you need to know the characters (Class 2015 and a few more) introduced in Seismic Semester for when they show up in FM7 and the Vicky novel, but you don't need the full story yet. So...we can go back to the mainline for awhile. Also, the Vicky novel is already like...2/5ths done...probably. I haven't checked yet. One novel is more than enough for me at the moment.
LOSING MY FUCKING MIND!
Who cares about Vicky that much? RAWR, GIVE ME CURSING BOY!!! Trust me...without spoiling anything...this book is important. And, uh...there might be some cursing boy in it...
Go ahead and let me know if you have a preference. I'm still undecided on this one and will probably go back and forth twenty times and let's get the one book out before we get ahead of ourselves, but...did I mention I'm losing my mind yet?