FozzieBare: Blog

We're in the last third of Thunder Reforged. Arc 3 will start going up almost immediately after Thunder Reforged's completion. I'm 90% through writing it. I can't spoil the title just yet. It will involve some folks you meet at the end of Arc 2.

Depending on the Page count, I may do a ZBookapy store version of Arcs 1-3 or Arcs 1-4. Let me know if this is a thing you'd want.

I said Labor Day for FTMD Chapter 24, and it's looking like it'll be middle-late this upcoming week instead.

Rogue's Rules is getting a rewrite on a couple upcoming chapters.. I want to make sure that they come out well.

Hope the End of Summer is going well for y'all

Foz

Time for the weekly status update:

Book 2 of World of WarMachines is just about complete. 9 of 12 scheduled chapters are complete, and with some pre-readers. Once the last three chapters are written, and I get some feedback, they'll start to be posted, same as Book 1, roughly a chapter a day. Expect that to start middle of next week by the latest I think

The next chapter of FTMD is coming along slowly, because as I said previously, this is a payoff chapter and it has to be right. No ETA on it, but it should be up by about Labor Day

Rogue's Rules is puttering along, and is taking up odd moments of time. We're starting to get in the end game now.

And trying to fit in all the other stories I have, and the ideas I've come up with. I'm already writing 2-3 hours a night. Usually late at night, when my dog is sleeping and not begging for attention, treats, or to go out to do their business every three and a half minutes.

So stay tuned, true believers, and we'll get through the backlog and onto new stuff.

Oh, who am I kidding, there's always going to be a backlog. Mostly because I keep adding items to it. But that's the good thing about this writing spree I'm on. I want to ride it as long as possible.

The last couple days have seen a pair of updates go up, one for Rogue's Rules, one for Free Trader Mary's Dream.

Book 1 of World of WarMachines is completely posted. Book 2 has three chapters complete so far. Depending on how my writing goes, I'll start posting it before I hit the end of Book 2, because right now I'm confident that I know how this goes at this point.

Just a fair warning. It might be a few days to a few weeks for FTMD Chapter 24.

Why?

It's a very important chapter. It will be the first time our main trio are together. I mean that physically, emotionally, and quite possibly intimately. They need to celebrate each other's light

And this is a chapter I absolutely, positively HAVE to get right.

It's absolutely key to the story. It's not a "reward with intimacy" chapter. It's completing the circle they already have.

And that brings me to the other purpose of the post.

As I mentioned elsewhere, across the 21 years I've done my best to write the story, it's hit almost 100,000 downloads. That's.. there are no words for that.

Except two.

Thank you.

I wanted to try to hire an artist to do this, but the ones I looked at wanted a good amount of money and time. I don't blame them, that is how they make their living.

But I wanted to give you guys and gals something as a thank you.

So I came up with this. It's a graphic from a prompt I made. It's the first physical meeting of Alex, Mary, and Melissa together.

The circle is complete.

Alex's strength. Mary's spirit and hope. Melissa's the glue among them three.

https://imgur.com/a/TG3o0MG

I will look for ways to get this made into art.. but I hope you guys accept it in the spirit offered.

Who says FozzieBare can't finish stories!

(what, everyone? No matter)

Book 2 is already in the early writing stages. Once I get far enough ahead in chapters, I'll start posting it.

Stories updates:

Free Trader Mary's Dream has hit an amazing 100,000 downloads across its lifetime. I'm planning on a thank you graphic for the story. The three main characters shortly after they finally get together on Bastion. Now I just have to finish writing that chapter.

Rogue's Rules is coming as well.

And.. well, there's just so many plot ideas that I'm trying to restrict myself to finishing the ones I have before starting new ones. (Especially since the Wastrel and One-on-One have been giving me side-eye about getting back to them when I can)

One eagle-eyed reader (shade656) caught a grave continuity error in FTMD.

I named the last Imperator in a previous chapter (I won't say which, because it's going to be fixed, and I don't want it to spread any further)

In the six years since I had written FTMD, I had lost the setting bible I had written, and when it came time to give the Last Imperator a name, my mind had skipped over the part where I had named and given a rank to the Last Imperator. I swear I re-read my stories almost 50 times and STILL made that error.

The person responsible for the continuity error has been fired, the person responsible for catching the continuity error has also been fired, and if I fire myself any more in a blog post, I may actually BE on fire.

Oh, and thanks again to shade656 for catching it. You’re not fired. You’re being given a 10% raise in your salary.

The chapter is in the queue to be reposted with the Julian/Admiral as it should be for the rest of the story.

In the mean time (tries Jedi Mind trick) It has always been Julian Arden, Admiral and Last Imperator.

God. I feel so dumb sometimes.