TechnicDragon: Blog

I've had additional help volunteer for editing chapters for Rogue Magus and I'm currently waiting to find out what one of my primary editors has to say. He's been more verbose in the past, so I'm anxious to read his thoughts.

In the mean, time I was working on yet more new chapters and had to reference back to Sibling Magus for context. The problem was, I couldn't find what I was looking for in my chapter outline. So, I took a couple of days and re-read the entire story.

This did several things for me:
* Allowed me to update the chapter outline so it's more like a refence sheet now.
* Allowed me to make minor corrections throughout the entire book as well as make minor additions to help with consistency.
* Helped me to find the chapter I was looking for when I started.
* And pointed out several flaws in Rogue Magus.

Yeah, I thought that last point might grab your attention. I know it grabbed mine. So, I went over all of the chapters I've posted for Rogue Magus too. Many of the points I made for Sibling also became points for Rogue. Most importantly, I went through and corrected the errors I became aware of (not to mention, the additional notes I made for myself concerning those errors and why the same things didn't occur in Sibling).

Suffice to say, I've already submitted all of the updated chapters for posting.

I'll leave it up to you to see if anyone can spot the error I made -- if any of you feel rambunctious enough to try. :)

TD

Recently, I've received a number of anonymous emails asking when I'll start working on Rogue Magus again.

Rest assured, I am working on it. Currently, I am up to chapter 27 and even have part of chapter 28 complete.

The only down side is that these chapters have not been looked over by anyone else for corrections. I know. Most of my work reads that way anyway. <shrugs>

Thank you for your patience.

I received a number of responses to my last blog and took the advice offered. Now, I am now one of the millions of published writers. Some of you may recall that I had a story posted here called Crushed Heart. I later pulled that story to attempt to get it published. Well, that goal has now been realized! Crushed Heart is now available on Amazon Kindle. I used my real name as author, Robert H. Sexton. :)

I know it's been a while since my last chapter posting. Part of the reason was due to not writer's block but writer's de ja vu. I felt like Seth was simply going around telling everyone the same thing over and over, hoping someone would help. So, I decided to take a break.

I still wanted to write, though. So, I dusted off an old story of mine that I had tried to get published a few years ago (Crushed Heart). Getting it published fell through because I was supposed to go through the story, looking for anything a reader might see and think WTH? I did. At least I worked on it up through chapter twelve (out of thirt-eight). I stopped because I only saw those issues spiraling out, making more issues, which would spiral out and make more issues, etc. As it was, I didn't believe that I would ever pick it up again. Boy, was I wrong.

About a month ago, I looked at again and realized that the problems weren't as bad as I believed. So, I set to work on it. Not only did I make all the changes that I had marked previously, but I also made changes that I hadn't thought of then.

Now, the story is complete and I'm hoping to contact someone about publishing. That is unless someone has a better suggestion. I've looked into self-publishing, but it seems to cost money too and I thought the idea of self-publishing was to not have to pay to publish. [shrugs]

If anyone has any suggestions, please shoot me an email.

In the mean time, I'll get back to work on Rogue Magus.

Happy Hollidays everyone!