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Moving along...
Set In Stone: Follower chapter 02 complete. Total words: 10,600
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Long overdue update --- I had a writing job that took priority..... ;)
African Firestorm is now at 61.8K, and i'm writing the climax now. Hope to have done this week.
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 03 is posted. Total up to 18,300 words
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 04 is posted. Total up to 24,000 words.
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As you will see by by sig, I have a new story up on battlecorps.com.... ;)
African Firestorm stands at 63.2K, and the climax is being written right now.....
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 05 is posted. Total up to 31,400 words.
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African Firestorm's First Draft is done! ;D
Sent it off to the other guy to look over and see what needs to be rewritten. I know it needs some changes (I'm no Rex Stout), so untill then, back to Battletech stories!!
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I took a week off from writing Set In Stone. An idea for a crossover fanfiction between Dwarf Fortress, a game, and Worm, a serial fiction, dangled itself in front of me and I grabbed at it like a kitten after a length of yarn, rolling in it and entangling myself hopelessly until it was finished.
Fourteen chapters and somewhere around 30-40k words later, Overseer stands complete.
I didn't bother counting the words. It has nothing to do with Jim's universe, so I'll drop a link here. http://www.royalroadl.com/fiction/1353
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Very fun, although you phenminal cosmic poWered her poWers at the end there. Other than that you aught to keep Writing more.
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Thanks!
I definitely plan to keep writing. The current original project is going to be e-published.
As for the ending, yes, Worm has quite a bit of Deus-Ex in it, like most super power fiction. I used the Deus-Ex factor of Worm to turn the main character from a vanilla player into a player that modifies the game.
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I think the destination is great, I just don't see you able to do more than 3 full books worth with it all front loaded like this, and when I would honestly prefer to see a 12 book arc getting there. The journey can be more fun than the grand super powered culmination at the end. Its all about the struggle against the bad guys which is hard to keep fresh if you top out early.
Personally I loved her range increase and didn't understand how the S9 survived. I get that it was some kind of reality/illusion reboot but the text didn't make it clear. And if it was a reality reset why couldn't she reboot some of her adult dwarves? Like I said not quite clear enough for me to see the leverage areas.
Honestly I like the idea of a clan of dwarves popping up the state park of a super-hero modern world. I just wish some of her master craftsmen survived as well as see a few of her electrician dwarves really take off. I also liked how people assumed that Overseer was geographically limited, because of 13 seasons of isolation while she rebuilt her clan/army. Its clear top me that she wasn't going to risk the outside world until she was back to full strength or somewhere close to it.
Anyway really cool start, I'd just like 'more' which might be hard if she's top of the world class already.
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Oh, Overseer won't be expanded on, unless a whim strikes me. It's crossover fanfiction, nothing to do with any of my original work. Set In Stone is the project that might get published. As for your comments about the way the story was put together, yes, it was compressed a good bit in a couple places where people who don't know the crossover source material would have issues. I wrote Overseer in six days, it's a bit of a rush job, but quite fun!
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 06 is posted. Total up to 36,100 words.
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 07 is posted. Total up to 41,600 words.
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Through Draft achieved and sent to first reader.
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 08 is posted. Total up to 50,600 words.
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13k (4 chapters) of Hidden Order book 2, (about 1k written today, besides a bit of clean up) ...
Hopefully I can pick up the pace a little more, now that I've learned a thing or two about writing.
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Through Draft achieved and sent to first reader.
note to self only agree to bate read for neuro if you like cliff hangers
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Well, Outcast Ops: African Firestorm is finished!
Actually, finished it last month, sent it to my co-author who looked it over, made a few changes, sent it back for me to make a few more changes, then sent it back for approval. He let me know he's sending it off to the formatter. Hopefully, it'll be out this month! ;D
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I somehow forgot to note Chapter 09, which was 6900 words, bringing the total to 57,500 at that point.
I just now finished Chapter 10, another 4800 words, bringing the total up to date at 62,300 words.
Oh, I also had a book cover made. https://setinstonestory.wordpress.com/book-cover/
(Now all I have to do is figure out why the book cover size uploaded wrong.)
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Set In Stone, Chapter 11 posted. 68,300 words.
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Set In Stone, Chapter 12 posted. Chapter is 7500 words, story at 75,800 words.
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Well, it's up! ;D
http://www.amazon.com/OUTCAST-Ops-African-Firestorm-Book-ebook/dp/B00VS61JTG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428559648&sr=1-1&keywords=African+Firestorm (http://www.amazon.com/OUTCAST-Ops-African-Firestorm-Book-ebook/dp/B00VS61JTG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428559648&sr=1-1&keywords=African+Firestorm)
My first novel!
Craig
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Set In Stone, Chapter 13 posted. 4200 words, bringing the total to 80,000 words
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Set in Stone chapter 14 posted. 6100 words. Book total 86,100.
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Bought it! Good luck w it!
Well, it's up! ;D
http://www.amazon.com/OUTCAST-Ops-African-Firestorm-Book-ebook/dp/B00VS61JTG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428559648&sr=1-1&keywords=African+Firestorm (http://www.amazon.com/OUTCAST-Ops-African-Firestorm-Book-ebook/dp/B00VS61JTG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428559648&sr=1-1&keywords=African+Firestorm)
My first novel!
Craig
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Set In Stone: Follower Chapter 15 posted, 8200 words, total: 94,300 words.
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beta read two chapters for neuro
started my own project
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its been a while since i actually wrote anything
so that is a success for me
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Finished the rough draft pegged in at around 150K
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Set In Stone has been updated twice.
Chapter 16 at roughly 6000 words
Chapter 17 at roughly 7700 words
Total now at roughly 108k
I also popped out a 30-40k fanfic for fun in the last couple weeks. Set In Stone just takes so much more care to write, because it's supposed to be rational.
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Started a new Outcast Ops novel today. Red Ice now stands at 980 words.
Craig
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well bookbub really works: $400 bucks and 3 week wait for the ad to run and 1268 sales so far today after they sent their email out at midnight to their 2million customers and that's all I've got to say about that!
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well bookbub really works: $400 bucks and 3 week wait for the ad to run and 1268 sales so far today after they sent their email out at midnight to their 2million customers and that's all I've got to say about that!
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$400 flat fee, or do they take a cut as well?
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Flat fee to send an ad out to their email/readership list.
They list it on the site but $320.00 I think for the .com (usa), another 20 buck for .ca (canada) and another 80 buck for .co.uk (england great britain area) I only did amazon but I see guys on kboards using barnes and noble, amazon, kobi etc.
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The first book I started writing but never actually finished. The time has come!
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice is now at 9.7K.....
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Set In Stone chapter 18 has been posted. Roughly 7100 words. Total up to 115k words.
I also wrote an original short story that was 6k words or so, in response to a short story anthology submission request. The story was turned down with no reason explaining why. Is it common for editors to not even bother to give any reason at all for refusing a story submission?
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice is up to 16.7K.....
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice stands at 23.1K.....
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Admiral's Challenge
By Luke Sky Wachter
Just uploaded.
ETA - Up in twelve hours
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice has reached 31.0 K.....
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice has crossed the 40.0 K mark! :D
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And Outcast Ops: Red Ice now stands at 43.3K! :D
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice has cracked 49.0K! ;D
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Outcast Ops: Red Ice is up to 53.4K....
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I've been a bit slack posting updates here.
Chapter 18 left me at 115k words
Chapter 19 @ 4300 words
Chapter 20 @ 8300 words
Doorway to act III
Chapter 21 @ 5300 words
Chapter 22 @ 5600 words
Chapter 23 @ 5900 words
Total up to 144k words
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Red Ice is now at 61.0K, and i'm writing the last scene before the climax starts.
Craig
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I just posted two new chapters of my work in progress to my Wattpad page. :)
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Red Ice now stands at 62.3K, and the big finish starts....
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And the first draft of Red Ice is Done! Final WC at the end of the first draft: 72.2K! Now to put it aside for a couple of days, then I'll start the rewrite!
Craig
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20k on a Dresden Files short story. Using it for practice. May have another 10k to go. Seems long for something I'll never get anything out of other than satisfaction/practice/helpful commentary, but thems the breaks. You gotta do what you gotta do.
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20k on a Dresden Files short story. Using it for practice. May have another 10k to go. Seems long for something I'll never get anything out of other than satisfaction/practice/helpful commentary, but thems the breaks. You gotta do what you gotta do.
I find that 20-30k word fanfiction is very nice for practicing things without needing to create a whole new world and your own characters.
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I find that 20-30k word fanfiction is very nice for practicing things without needing to create a whole new world and your own characters.
True that. 34k and the story is done. Have to re-read and complete some edits. Might even have to drop some sections; we'll see. There's not much action, but that's the nature of the beast when writing about certain non-wizardly characters.
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I have been slack, not reporting my writing recently.
Set In stone has been updated several times:
Chapter 24: 5700 words
Chapter 25: 4400 words
Chapter 26: 5600 words
Chapter 27: 7700 words
Chapter 28: 11200 words
End of Act III
Total word count is now 178,600 words.
Next chapter will be the epilogue, then I'll start to edit for publishing.
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Set In Stone: Follower is now finished!
Epilogue: 9,400 words
Total length: 188,000 words
And now, I get to start editing roughly 900,000 words in six novels for publication, starting with this one.
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Rough Draft to editor!
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And my next (co-authored) novel is up on Amazon!
http://www.amazon.com/OUTCAST-Ops-Craig-Reed-Jr-ebook/dp/B017V27ZHK/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1447449962&sr=1-4&keywords=Outcast+Ops (http://www.amazon.com/OUTCAST-Ops-Craig-Reed-Jr-ebook/dp/B017V27ZHK/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1447449962&sr=1-4&keywords=Outcast+Ops)
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Craig
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Just launched my next book on amazon!
Just launched the book on amazon yesterday.
Admiral's War Part One is live! You can find it by following the link here and at the same time your eventual purchase will earn me a few pennies.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01A1X8LBU?ref_=pe_2427780_160035660
Hurray book 9 is finally and at long last out.
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