Finished my revision of Chapter 14. From here, I need to do what I think will basically just be a read-through of Chapters 15-17, because I wrote those after I figured out the change I wanted to make to Tzila's storyline. I need to do a second pas...
2024-11-14 02:45:03 +0000 UTC
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Finished the new version of Chapter 12 and did some revisions on Chapter 13. At this point I've reconnected the threads of Tzila's new take by connecting the early revisions with the later re-writes. I still need to go through and make sure Chapte...
2024-11-12 17:19:16 +0000 UTC
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I was working through the end of the dinner party and Tzila's forced confession and the scene wasn't sitting quite right with me, so I spent some time figuring out why. There's an element of Tzila's character that I've been working on softening, ...
2024-11-10 02:24:24 +0000 UTC
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I finished my revised version of Chapter 11, and am now working through a complete re-write of 12. I'm keeping the main story beats the same, but am trying to change the mood some - I want to soften and build Tzila's character a little more before...
2024-11-08 04:18:38 +0000 UTC
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I got through some substantial updates on chapters 9 and 10. I've uploaded those as standalone chapters, but also updated the Current Status document. If you're reading it currently there's a section in chapter 21 that will look weird - I'm probab...
2024-11-06 04:02:41 +0000 UTC
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Back after a nice few days rest and back to editing. Things are going much faster and smoother after a letting my mind wander, I expect to make good progress with B2 for the next few days.
2024-11-04 15:04:52 +0000 UTC
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I'm starting to burn out doing editing, so I'm going to take a short break from that for a few days. I may do some random short creative pieces, but probably not anything major.
I have updated the Augur Book 2 Current State with the l...
2024-10-30 18:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Still working on editing - I'm up to the right with Janssens in the Trail of Tears state park. I have completed any current planned updates to Tzila's storyline by rewriting the early sections of the final chapter.
2024-10-26 18:20:50 +0000 UTC
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This is the current state of Augur Book 2, Blood and Bargains. I plan to update this post rather than make a new one every time I re-upload the manuscript, which will probably happen a few more times over the next week or two.
I'm still goin...
2024-10-25 15:57:34 +0000 UTC
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New draft of chapter 20, wrapping up Tzila's new storyline. Cindy and Rose get silly and sexy, and Jack finally claims his Jinn properly.
Next up is doing a little re-writing of the start of the last chapter of the book proper, then I'm goin...
2024-10-22 01:00:37 +0000 UTC
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Update poll for full members after I found the option I'd been looking for in Scrivener:
I'm trying to figure out the best way to share new content as I revise and edit.
Which do you prefer?
New completed chapter 19, from Tzila's breaking through some of her integration into the household.
From here, I should be able to more readily update what I already have written, rather than creating new stuff.
I hope.
2024-10-20 17:16:56 +0000 UTC
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Quick poll for full members:
I'm trying to figure out the best way to share new content as I revise and edit.
Do you prefer:
Once again, a very rough draft chapter, but the good thing about this style of initial content is that I can crank out text much more quickly (which is exactly why I'm trying it out.)
I'll need to spend more time editing them before they're ...
2024-10-19 17:14:24 +0000 UTC
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I've written a couple different rough drafts for the next scene in Tzila's breaking, but I think I finally settled on a basic format for it that I like.
This is, much like the end of the last chapter, a very rough draft - no editing, misspel...
2024-10-19 03:11:47 +0000 UTC
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This chapter wound up being more heavily revised than I expected. If you read through my first draft of it, you'll see some similarities, but the pacing of this one is pretty different.
I also tried something new with the very final section....
2024-10-18 02:59:52 +0000 UTC
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I'm about 1/3rd of the way through my revision draft of book 2, and am making some progress with the Tzila re-writes. I'm having to change more than I thought I would, mostly because the tone doesn't feel quite right, so it's going a little slower...
2024-10-17 20:43:35 +0000 UTC
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Ok, finished the last two scenes in chapter 17. I'm going to have to do some revisions to the next few chapters to make sure the mood and flow of Tzila's breaking still fits and makes sense, but the broad strokes of events shouldn't change too muc...
2024-10-16 15:52:17 +0000 UTC
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I still have one or two sections to write, but this is a good chunk of the new chapter 17. I'll see if I can get the rest knocked out either tomorrow during the day or Thursday, but figured I'd share what I had so far.
2024-10-16 02:05:05 +0000 UTC
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I'm continuing to write the new chapter 17 as well as going through with my editing pass. The image in the post is a snip of Scrivener, the tool that I'm trying out for this process. You can see that while I am actually making pretty good progress...
2024-10-15 21:12:27 +0000 UTC
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I'm getting some good progress done on a new chapter 17 - I'm about 4.5k words in and will guess the chapter will come out at somewhere around 10k words total.
Part of that is the chapter is me taking the time to do something I've wanted to ...
2024-10-15 02:00:49 +0000 UTC
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I have started to run out of momentum on Master of One, so I switched back to book 2 and am working on wrapping up the expansion of Tzila's storyline (specifically, re-writing the intro to what is now chapter 17, where Jack goes in and start forci...
2024-10-13 16:47:44 +0000 UTC
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I got a good amount of writing done, though the chapters are still relatively short. Daniel's relationship with Tif is starting to heat up, we got some action scene, and we got a lot of worldbuilding done, though, so it feels like the pace might b...
2024-10-12 03:48:03 +0000 UTC
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First draft of the end of Chapter 9 and the start of Chapter 10.
Chapter 10 marks something of a turning point in the story - the real action is starting, and Daniel gets his first real taste of both how his class actually works, and why Aur...
2024-10-10 20:45:31 +0000 UTC
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I made a good amount of progress, and have finished a first draft of chapter 8 and half of chapter 9.
The chapters of Master of One are shorter than Augur, though I expect they'll get longer as we get deeper into the action. My best guess is...
2024-10-09 19:43:40 +0000 UTC
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I finally caught up on my Master of One re-writes. There are some major updates to chapter 6 (the second fight) and I have finally written a first draft of the end of chapter 7.
Part of the delay was that while I was going back and revising,...
2024-10-08 13:59:02 +0000 UTC
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I am almost caught up on my MoO rewrites, with only Chapter 6 (and the start of Chapter 7) to go!
While I'm working on these, I'm also expanding out worldbuilding and fleshing out several characters. I have plotted out the basic framework of...
2024-10-07 03:04:14 +0000 UTC
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Also a handful of changes to the first three chapters, but those are pretty sparse. About the only one of those worth calling out is that the fight with the bandits now starts with "Encounter: Bandits (3)" instead of just "Bandits (3)". The additi...
2024-10-05 17:00:13 +0000 UTC
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Ok, I know I said I probably wasn't going to get much writing done, but I finished my rewrite/update of Scene 3. It didn't require as much editing as the first few, as I think the tone was about right, but the voice needed to be tightened up.
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2024-10-04 14:43:43 +0000 UTC
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I started doing a re-write of the first few chapters.
I like a lot of the worldbuilding that I have going for the world, but the tone of the protagonist didn't quite feel right.
Most of the action is the same, but I did make a handful ...
2024-10-04 02:37:15 +0000 UTC
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