“Badgelor lived through this,” I growled as we continued walking. We were out of immediate danger. Super immediate danger at least. We were just off the beach following the edge of the inner sea towards Windfall. &...
2023-10-15 23:12:36 +0000 UTC
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“Here’s what I think happened,” said Shart preparing for another discussion. “When Filly, he’s one of my best friends, realized he lost his hat he must have started looking for it and obviously we have a bond like Jim and Dalt...
2023-10-08 22:48:46 +0000 UTC
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Sarah is doing better. Quite a bit, but unfortunatly she was at an EXTREMELY low point so that doesn't mean she's doing well. Without going into too much detail, she has an acute kidney injury which is stopping team kidney from working...
2023-10-01 21:57:26 +0000 UTC
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Julia had never thought it could be that bad. When she was a child she had awoken one day with the certainty that in her lifetime Grebthar would be reborn and the battles with the Dark Overlord would resume. Little Julia had...
2023-10-01 21:53:21 +0000 UTC
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So, fun week. Wake up on Monday and my wife thinks she's dying so we go on a quick trip to the ER where they informed us that she was, in fact, dying.
Fortunatly, they could handle that with enough time in a hospital. I don't wan...
2023-09-25 03:49:55 +0000 UTC
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“This passage between worlds is different than the last one,” I commented. There was an odd echo surrounding us. It was like I was in a long concrete hallway rather than the mostly empty room I was standing in.
“...
2023-09-25 03:46:05 +0000 UTC
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“Keep moving,” yelled Shart. I didn’t need to be told twice. Honestly, I didn’t really need to be told the first time. I continued racing as fast as my badger-power assisted legs could carry me. Along with our ability to share Stamin...
2023-09-17 22:21:16 +0000 UTC
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I dropped back into Trenton the moment I was able. The demon attendant glanced over at me as I started to awaken. They were a totally genderless octopus-like ball of tentacles surrounded by eyes.
“Did you find your v...
2023-09-10 22:36:34 +0000 UTC
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I'm going to be at a labor day function tonight, so no chat but I have been working on a side project with an old writing buddy of mine. We've gotten quite a few chapters done so I figured I'd mention it. The tale of Sir Joe the bold. ...
2023-09-03 15:55:22 +0000 UTC
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“Hold your arms up! It's better that way,” yelled Shart. The roller coaster suddenly banked sharply, and we twisted down a series of curves and bends. Without me physically being there, the effect was greatly muted. That...
2023-09-03 15:52:03 +0000 UTC
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Fenris was positive that whatever Jim was doing had to be far more important than what he himself was doing. It just had to be.
“As acting mayor, I dedicate this statue to the Windfall town mascot,” called Fenris, cuttin...
2023-08-27 14:35:52 +0000 UTC
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They did, in fact, have a mortal rig. The inside of the shop looked like a cyberpunk nightmare right out of the Matrix. Sometimes a human who couldn't summon demons would make his way down here to talk to their demon, usually to strike a con...
2023-08-20 22:47:25 +0000 UTC
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“Boys have a penis, and girls have a vagina,” I began, in my lesson in hentai school. It was a lesson I never thought I’d have to give.
“This should be fun,” said Shart with an utter lack of confidence.
I knew that...
2023-08-13 22:21:01 +0000 UTC
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(Short chapter this week, next week should be interesting through.)
“Welcome to Trenton,” said Ben as we entered the city proper. There were nodes at the outskirts of the town where a small cluster of barns resided that looked like...
2023-08-06 22:49:02 +0000 UTC
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(Final stage pre editor)
“And that’s the soul cleanser,” said Ben as we walked by the main tower, surrounded by dozens of confused demons.
“So, all mortal souls get processed through there before being returned to Ordinal?” I...
2023-07-30 22:52:20 +0000 UTC
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Book 2 in the fifth era series. Ever want to see what an actual game of DnD is like with me, this is it.
2023-07-26 04:34:03 +0000 UTC
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(Another week, another chapter)
I exhaled loudly, slamming my foot down on the massively armored demon’s detached head. Removing that hadn’t killed him though, it turned out demons viewed their heads as more optional than on...
2023-07-23 22:45:34 +0000 UTC
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(Note, these are final revised chapters, they are still in the editing process but that takes more time, and I kind of promised chapter releases a while ago. So here is this chapter, in all its glory, when it gets a final edit I'll repos...
2023-07-16 22:29:10 +0000 UTC
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Chapter 1 - Jim Goes Down to Jersey, Looking for a Soul to Steal
“I expected this to be a bit more of a challenge,” I stated nonchalantly, stepping through the portal to Jersey. Well, we were more like Jersey-adjacent. I wasn...
2023-07-09 14:20:03 +0000 UTC
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So, I'm 1/3rd of the way through after both massive expanding and editing the first part of the book. Good stuff. Very neat story covering two sections of Ordinal that have not yet been seen.
The next act deals with stuff closer ...
2023-06-25 22:45:49 +0000 UTC
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So I'm slowly going through book 8, adding in bits and pieces I missed and filling out sections that were not detailed enough. Good news, doing that adds a bunch of words. Bad news is that it is slow going, but I expected that and no o...
2023-06-18 23:01:50 +0000 UTC
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That's great, but this is just the first stage of getting a noobtown book completed. I'll have to go through it at least 2 more times to actually get it up to a standard that is not a total embarrasment, then I have to let Sarah go through i...
2023-06-11 23:40:13 +0000 UTC
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I am still working on 8, far longer than I initially expected but I keep running into quality issues that I feel are worth some rewrites. At this point I'm to the final bit though, so once more into the breech and I think I'll have it all wr...
2023-06-04 22:46:16 +0000 UTC
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Book 8 is an ending and I find those harder to write than even a book in the middle of a series. Actually writing out endings is something I do not enjoy because any errors you make are somewhat permenant so I dont' want to screw it up. &nbs...
2023-05-21 22:42:38 +0000 UTC
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So utlimatly Noobtown is the story of Jim, and I think one of the problems is that I like ensemble novels a bit too much. My initial ending focused too much other other characters and that was costing me a bit in the personalization of Jim's...
2023-05-15 16:25:14 +0000 UTC
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So I thought Book 8 hit a speedbump lot wise and sent it over to several of my alpha readers to determine if I had. I did.
So I'm losing a week plus worth of work and revising it. I might be able to recover some of what was writt...
2023-05-07 22:50:16 +0000 UTC
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So life is back to Noobtown and I'm going to try to have it wrapped up in the next week or two. We'll see if my writing training to expand my bandwidth was at all useful.
The book is current at 120k words, and I'm shooting for 150-160k...
2023-04-30 22:55:52 +0000 UTC
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So I just finished a first draft. What happens now? Well, first you go through and figure out what the book does well, what it does poorly, and what needs worked on. Second you check out the themese presented, and the...
2023-04-14 01:53:57 +0000 UTC
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First draft done, I'll discuss what happens next in another post.
Chapter 42: Which witch is which?
I returned to the dungeon and began searching around for another path back to the courtyard. Clearly there had to be o...
2023-04-14 01:45:25 +0000 UTC
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So, in order to preserve my wrist I cut down to 5k words today. I'm going to try 10k again tomorrow and see how it feels but I'm not confident. Still, 5k a day is much better than my usual 2k so this is a vast improvement.
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2023-04-12 03:40:00 +0000 UTC
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