Ryan801army: Blog

The update first: chapter 14 for "Resume" has been submitted to the queue. I am planning on still sticking with the posting achedule of a chapter every 2 weeks (or better).
Now to address "First and Second Date" (will be shortened down to "Date" going forward.) I am planning on starting to write again on "Date". The first step has been reading my own writing again. While it is a largely true story, there have been fictional additions. I should be able to resume writing within the next week. I will however be balancing that with "Resume" and still work both. So that I don't lose momentum on posting for "Date" I will continue my pattern of not posting a chapter until I have at least three queued up (or finish the story). I do have an educated guess that "Date" will reach its conclusion before "Resume" does. But for now it will give me something to work on when I have a writer's block on "Resume". To any fans of "Date": welcome back. I apologize it's taken this long. I would like to think I am in a better head space and will be able to finish this story. As I've said, it's at heart a true story and aspects of it are painful to write.

Ryan

So I got some good input so far about whether I should post sooner since I'm ahead of schedule. However, I think what I'm going to do is take advantage of that and alternate what I'm writing. I think I'm in a position where when I need a break from "Resume" I can work on "Date", resurrect and even finish that story. That being said, I will still keep my schedule for "Resume", but "Date" will fill in some time and eventually get finished. Plus, I have to admit it will be nice to get rid of that annoying yellow inactive strip on my list of stories. With a little luck this will help my original fans of that story feel better about it finally getting continued and finished. Though I will say there are probably less remaining chapters there for "Date" than there are for "Resume", since "Date" has a set end point and "Resume" is still undetermined.

As always, thanks for your input and comments on my writing. That's the stuff that keeps it going.
Ryan

So I've stated that my posting goal for "Resume" is a chapter every two weeks. Additionally, that I wanted to stay at four chapters ahead so that if I got busy I still had wiggle room with chapters written and only needing editing before posting. That being said, thirteen is the chapter that has been posted and my writing has me up to chapter eighteen. So here's the input request: should I post chapter fourteen soon or wait the near two weeks and potentially get further ahead?

Ryan

I've posted another of my true story Army stories to the queue. Please keep in mind these are just quick written true stories that my editor has not seen, so any criticism/errors are solely my fault

Chapter 13 of "Resume" has just been submitted to the queue. Thingsbare starting to build a little more now with introduction of more characters coming. Hope you like.

Ryan