Kenn Ghannon: Blog

No, I'm not talking about an androgynous alien getting their sexual release. 'Fairly CAPable' is coming. Thanks to social distancing, shelter-in-place and general Real Life issues, my hardworking editing team (of one) is moving through the story - and then I'm more slowly moving through his edits after him (sorry, Real Life™ - it isn't just for breakfast anymore).

The plan is to start posting as soon as we are collectively through editing 1/2 the story (when we finish editing Chapter 17 - the story is 33 chapters long plus a prologue). We are currently finished with Chapter 12, so I'm thinking two or three more weeks (give or take). My posting schedule plan, at this point in time, is to post on Tuesdays and Saturdays - two chapters a week - until complete.

!!WARNING!! The chapters are LARGELY UNEVEN. This means some chapters are very short (maybe as little as 4 Microsoft Word pages) while others are inordinately long (as in, maybe 20+ Microsoft Word pages). No matter how long or how short, I will be posting TWO chapters per week, ONE each on Tuesday and ONE each on Saturday (if those are the days I eventually decide upon). I will not be posting an extra chapter during the week if one is too short. I will not be posting only one chapter during the week if the chapter is very long. You have been warned.

I does not writ Enngglishes goodly.

As a matter of fact, it is amazing what I write is understood at all. I mix tenses with glee, write sentences that are too long, too short, are occasionally missing subjects and verbs and sometimes even start in one place and finish in another.

You'd think English would be my second language. Sadly, you'd be wrong. I just butcher the English language for butchering's sake.

As you can imagine, what I write needs to be heavily edited to make it legible. My editor frequently makes comments like 'I wasn't sure what you meant here, but this sounds good'. To which I ardently reply 'Um. Yeah. We'll go with that.' Other fun comments are 'What language did you write this in?', 'have you heard of this new thing called commas?', 'you need to separate your words into coherent ideas instead of one 16-chapter long sentence', and my all-time favorite 'if you do this one more fucking time, I'm quitting'.

Needless to say, he hasn't. Yet. I do worry, though.

TL;DR version (and I put it down here for a reason - I wanted you to have to read through all that <queue evil laugh>) - 'Fairly CAPable' is being edited but is functionally complete (read: all the words are there, someone just has to put them into sentences, paragraphs and chapters to make it legible). After all, it takes a particular skill set to turn 'bebe, toto, question notisor the that' into 'to be, or not to be, that is the question'.

Where have I been? Where have I BEEN?

Holed up with my wife, working from home as has much of the rest of the country. With my all my children holed up with us.

I have four children. I have four bedrooms. My children don't like to share bedrooms.

I do, however, have an upstairs bonus room which I use as my office (so, technically, I have five bedrooms but...) So, my daughter has been sleeping on a queen-sized blow up mattress in my office.

My computer is in my office. Is the picture becoming a little more clear now?

A co-author has been doing yeoman's work editing 'Pretty CAPable' - but he has his own family to think about (and, honestly, I've not been as responsive as I could have/should have been). So, I'm not even positive what chapter he managed to finish editing before I had to 'lay low'.

[Because I find nothing as embarrassing as having my English Teacher daughter asking me what I'm typing. It's not like I can say 'erotica' - she kind of knows what that is now...]

So, it may be a bit before 'Pretty CAPable' comes to computer screens near you.

Stupid Wuhan Flu...

...written a story and believed it to be so good, so perfect, people would fall on their faces bowing to its awesomeness? Only to have your editors come to you and shower the tale with red ink?

This is what has happened to me.

'Fairly CAPable' is complete. Sort of. It's written - but, as my editors can attest, it is poorly written. Evidently, I don't right English two goodly. I also have spent way too much time bending time and space into pretzel and Möbius strip (hey - it worked for Tony Stark, damn it!) shapes that time and space were not meant to be bent into. I have, effectively, waved my hand in delighted parting with the canon with which so many other Swarm Authors have paid strict compliance.

Needless to say, 'Fairly CAPable' will not debut this Tuesday. My editors and I have a lot of work ahead of us to turn this tale into something which is not only legible but fits into accepted Swarm Universe boundaries.

Please don't think poorly of me - or I might jest mek u red the storey as me've righten it naow.

I had intended on beginning the posting of 'Fairly CAPable' on Tuesday, February 04, 2020. However, after reviewing my schedule - and having a realistic look at things - I can't do it.

Instead, I'm going to push it to Tuesday, February 18, 2020 (if it's any help at all, I WAS thinking about postponing it until February 29 - because I feel it would be a most auspicious day to start a story, but...).

I apologize for the delay - but, hey, at least now you know when to expect it! :)

Thanks for reading,
Kenn Ghannon