REP: Blog

Just a quick update.

Jim 7 has completed his effort at editing Time Scope 2. Thank you Jim7. For the past few weeks, I have been doing a final review of the story. During what was supposed to be my final review, I decided to make a number of final changes to enhance the story. Hopefully, I didn't make too many errors. Due to the number of changes I made, I started my final review of the story today. This morning I submitted the Introduction and first three chapters to our Webmaster for delayed posting. The Introduction and Chapter 01 are scheduled for posting on March 14. I hope to finish this final review and have all 19 chapters submitted for delayed posting by the end of the week.

Thank you for your feedback emails, and I hope you enjoy the story. I enjoyed writing it.

REP

For those of you who are curious about the change in my posting time, I have started using SOL's Delayed Posting feature.

This feature allows me to submit my chapters and assign them a "No Sooner Posting Date". At 8:00 PM Eastern Standard/Daylight Time on the posting date, all of the website's delayed posting stories appear in SOL's posting queue. The staff processes and posts the stories at that time. Therefore, my posts will not appear until after 8:00 PM EST/EDT.

I don't start posting until all chapters of a story are written, edited, and ready to post. Therefore, the advantage of my using this feature is if something were to happen to me, the full story will be posted. If I become ill, incapacitated, or die, then you my readers will receive everything that is in my delayed posting queue.

Time Scope Part 2 is still in editing but should be complete by the first part of February at the latest; assuming I don't make a major change, which is unlikely at this point. Opening Earth Part 2 is currently being posted and the final chapter will post on 3/7/17. I plan to start posting TS2 on 3/14/17.

I am currently working on a short story, which I call Sauce for the Gander. I think it will be less than ten chapters, and if it is ready, I may slip it into the posting queue between OE2 and TS2. If not, I will add it after TS2 has been fully posted.

Once SG is complete and in for editing, I will go back to my D-Hopping Universe and complete a story I call Sam's Hopping. I will decide later where I will go from there.

If any of you, my readers, have a preference for what I should work on after that, let me know. I think this will be a majority rules decision based on number of requests for a specific story. The next parts in my ongoing serials are The Ark Part 2, Opening Earth Part 3, and Time Scope Part 3. In my 2/17/16 blog post, I described the stories I planned to write. A few of those have been posted, or they are mentioned above.

What would you like to see written after I complete Sam's Hopping?

A heads up for my Time Scope fans - some good news and some sad news

The good news is I have two major scenes to write and Part 2 will be complete, and I plan on a Part 3. Once the two scenes are written, about a day, I will get the story proofed and edited, which will take more than a month.

The sad news is when I am happy with it, I will add it to my posting queue. What that means is - yesterday, Chapter 6 of Open Earth Part 2 was posted, so there are 15 chapters remaining to be posted. Thus the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Time Scope 2 should post on March 14. Then one chapter a week for the next 18 weeks.

I posted the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Opening Earth Part 2 today. Chapter 2 will be posted this coming Tuesday, and the remaining 19 chapters will be posted one chapter a week on Tuesday.

My focus will now be on completing Time Scope Part 2. I will also be working on several other stories when I need a break from TS2 to include Opening Earth Part 3.

I just posted a new story, Not My Fault. It is a short, fictional story about why relationships fail. I see the story as informative, and it is neither happy nor sad.

While the story itself is fictional, relationship failures happen all the time in our society. I don't have data that proves my contention that my single reason for most relationship failures is true, but I do believe what I had my characters say in the story.

Hopefully you will enjoy the story, and constructive feedback is always welcomed.

My editor, Jim7, has finished editing the first half of Opening Earth Part 2. He is now working his way through the last half of the story. Once I have reviewed his edits, I will do a final review/edit of the story; and then I will start posting the Chapters. There are a total of 21 Chapters plus the Introduction.

Yes, before you ask, there will be a Part 3 to the story. A number of the Part 3 chapters were written before I picked a good end point for Part 2. However, as I said earlier, I do have a few partially written stories that I want to complete before focusing on Opening Earth Part 3. Not My Fault was one of them.

Thank you, REP