A new story State of Chaos is now being posted. This is the third novel in the Chaos series.
Initially this will go out two chapters a week. The intent is not less than two a week and not more than three.
As always I am extremely interested in any errors you can spot no matter how small. Just send me a comment and I'll fix them ASAP.
Codes listed are for the entire story.
Special thanks to my editors, Mr. Spock, PCBondsman, and TenderTouch for their invaluable help getting this story completed.
Enjoy!
Ezzy
Tuesday just sounded like a bad day to finish up. I went ahead and posted the remaining two chapters of Rebecca Danced today. They should be available shortly.
Enjoy the rest of the weekend!
Ezzy
That scream you just heard was the moderator looking into the posting queue and finding that Anita's rescue has been updated.
All of it.
Mostly these changes are for consistency. The same conventions should be used throughout the story. Italics for emphasis and bold for a shout and no all-caps at all.
There are a few minor story changes. You probably can't spot them. If you do you will realize that they didn't significantly change the story, but they are there to smooth the transition into 'State of Chaos'.
The two stories originally overlapped by a few weeks, now they won't. Anything else, well you'll just have to wait and see why that was tweaked a little.
If you are following 'Rebecca Danced' and holding off on reading 'Anita's Rescue' until it's done then by all means enjoy.
I'm not completely sure you need to re-read the entire story otherwise.
In this case the original story files are in the files section in the forum though they may lack some later cosmetic fixes. I've had a few people who are having a fascinating time comparing the old and new versions of Rebecca Danced, so who knows.
Ezzy
"Can you also repost the original versions?"
I imagine that would open up a can of worms with the webmaster that I really don't want to open. I give him enough grief as it is.
If you really want the original files send me a message (not anonymously) and I will send you the original files. They are marked-up text files and there is some SOL specific formatting that will not display correctly in a browser.
Update: You can find the HTML files from the original posting of Rebecca Danced in the files section on the forum (forum button, top of this page). These had been saved by a reader and display properly in a web browser.
Ezzy
There was a change to SOL a few months ago that went by with little fanfare. There was some discussion on the SOL Discussion group about it, but like all things on SOLDG the thread soon degenerated into the ferret thing and became worthless ...
But I digress. There used to be a text box at the end of the last posted chapter in a story encouraging you to leave a comment. Nice, because all authors love people who comment, good or bad, on their stories.
This was changed to a link at the end of every chapter enabling you to send a comment. The purpose of that was to allow a specific comment about that chapter.
Sounds about the same actually, but it isn't. If you comment on a chapter it is flagged in the subject line to the author as being from that specific story and chapter.
What does that do for you and me? It makes it much easier to send a comment about an error or specific thing you enjoyed.
This morning I had two comments on corrections. One simply said "you should not have two speakers in the same paragraph".
Absolutely not! That's about as hard and fast a rule on writing as there is. My first thoughts of the first draft shouldn't have two speakers in the same paragraph even before I type it! The reader is absolutely correct. But where do I find it? Update: found a ton of them in chapter 11, I'm asking the moderator now, but it looks to me like the HTML wasn't parsed correctly. That generally means I made a REALLY big mistake in preparing the file for SOL. It will be fixed ASAP. Update:12:28 EDT: Fixed now Trust me when I say my editors would never allow such a thing and they're the best volunteer editors on SOL. I have like an all-star editing team backing me up here :)
The second error was a missing period in the second chapter of Anita's Rescue. Meh! How did that happen? That was an error in the master file. The thing is the reader continued to read the story then had to try to remember where he saw it. He had to send a second comment in when he realized exactly where it was.
The point is that if you spot an error it is much easier to report it at the end of that chapter simply by commenting on the chapter. I'd much rather comb through one chapter trying to find something than the entire novel and you, as the reader won't have to remember where it was that something caught your eye.
Anyway, thanks all for reading and keep the comments (and occasional corrections) coming.
Ezzy Black