User blog:ToaGonel/Summer Updates

Hello, friends.

I won't waste any of our time by making this too long. Of course, knowig my long-windedness, that may not mean much. We'll see.

Starting Thursday and running for the following two (possibly three) weeks, I will be inactive. I may pop in once or twice to take care of something, but as I will be on vacation and busy with assorted farm business, I will be largely absent. This is the same thing I did last summer around this time.

Once I do return, I will begin releasing my G2 story Lies in the Light. I have yet to determine my release schedule, but it will probably be far faster than Wake which took about three months to get out and lasted seemingly forever. I will not make the same mistake again.

I am also still working through Broken Order, although I've been too distracted writing the second cycle to continue the first. Still, I am making slow progress though Beyond the Known, as well as its sequel (which is the final book in the first cycle). I partially accredit this to the different writing styles used for these; for the first cycle I used Greg Farshtey's style of writing--with minimal planning. With this second cycle, I've tried the opposite extreme, planning everything. This has been far easier, in my opinion, to tell the story I mean to tell, rather than meandering as some of the first cycle sections do.

Anyway, that's all. If I can think of anything else worth adding, I'll do so below. It may be worth noting that the Staff is currently preparing a new bot which is currently in its testing stages. You'll see more of it once it is fully operational, especially for cleaning up the Categories to wiki policy.

See y'all in a few months...