Kenn Ghannon: Blog

It has come to my attention that Chapter 8 of 'Pretty CAPable' was long enough to warrant 2 pages in the SOL system; that wasn't intentional but it is what it is. The problem arises from the page separation occurring between the letters 's' and 'a' in the word 'sane'.

I have no idea how the SOL system manages to divide a single file into the two html pages; it is - quite honestly - an awesome system and my kudos to whomever wrote it, runs it and maintains it. Since I don't know how it works its magic, I also have no idea how to fix it so that it doesn't separate the page in the middle of a word; all I do is upload the chapter in a single html file - SOL does the rest. If anyone knows how I can 'force' the system to break in a certain place, I'd appreciate it if you told me so I can fix this.

Thanks!
Kenn Ghannon

I apologize; the Pretty CAPable update is a day late. There's really no excuse though I can point to my internet being down since last Saturday and installation of a new SSD drive on my computer (for which I re-installed my Operating System). However, though I was and am still installing a number of programs, I was essentially done late yesterday afternoon.

Like I said, I really have no excuse - but I hope you enjoy the new chapter anyway.

For those of you keeping track in our home edition, I've just submitted Chapter 04: Best Laid Plans of Pretty CAPable for publishing. It should show up shortly - maybe even before I finish writing this blog entry.

One of the frequently asked questions revolves around publishing at a faster pace or publishing the story all at once. Although - as I've said all along - the story is finished, I am not going to publish it all at once or any faster than I do now. Believe me when I say that there is a part of me that wants to publish it faster - I want to give you instant gratification - but I won't.

I have a follow-up story in process to this story. My sincere hope is that by the time Pretty CAPable is finished, I will have finished the follow-up and can continue pushing a chapter a week or, at worst, maybe take a week or a month between publishing the final chapter of Pretty CAPable (which will be chapter 15 for those in our viewing audience), and starting the follow on.

I sincerely hope that everyone is enjoying the story. I also hope that you can have some patience with my chapter a week cycle. At least it's not a chapter a year (yeah, I'm talking about you Cold Creek and your follow-up to The Defenceman and you, too, Robberhands and your A Break from Destiny series - I've been waiting, quite patiently I might add, for updates on those stellar stories for forever now...), right? :)

I've just posted the Author's Note and Chapter 01: Espanto for a new story I've been working on in Thinking Horndog's Swarm Cycle universe. The story itself is complete and comes in at 15 chapters and a bit over 150,000 words. My plan is to post one Chapter per week, usually on the weekends (though I won't firmly commit to Saturday or Sunday); I had to post on Monday this week for technical reasons. I hope you enjoy it.

Some few of you might have noticed that I've quietly added Chapter 10 of the 'Ring of Command' story. I never intended for that story to go so long without an update but...sometimes things happen in life that take you in a direction you never wanted to go.

First, I'd like to apologize to all the people who've written to me in the past...oh, let's call it a year or so...and whom I've never answered. I won't minimize my culpability with excuses - I just haven't been writing. Anything. At all.

My muse has been active but I've been ignoring her (yes, my muse is female; you think I'd take advice from a guy?). Selfish, maybe, but...well, I won't bore you. Suffice it to say that I've been alive but not writing; reading A LOT but...I've just had no drive to write much.

I'm hoping to change that but, I'll warn you now, it's an up-hill battle. The chapter I posted is one of several that were a buffer for me; I've not written anything new here (though I have been *trying* recently) in over a year. I've got 2 more 'buffer' chapters I've started but I'm hoping that reading the story will charge me up to finish this. Let us pray... :)

Thank you for your attention.