Stultus: Blog

"I'm Going to Make it all the Way" is DONE! Well, 92 to 98% done anyway. I'll add on it. another chapter or perhaps two someday - but the tale I originally set out to tell is complete. I don't really need or want to fill out his career, indefinitely... without a very good 'story driven' purpose for it. Anyway, way too much to do right now - so 'More Spacey' won't happen soon.

Next off of the long overdue "Incomplete" story list, is the next chapter of "Baleful Sky"... and I've already uploaded it! Most of this chapter had been done (years ago) but it was a mess. It has taken me two+ weeks of tweaks and edits to make this chapter serviceable for posting. Unfortunately, it's also the 'exact' sort of chapter that many readers complain about - that I 'give my characters too much hell'. Mea culpa... but I do that shit for a story-telling purpose. Cheer up, things will quickly improve for my characters.

I'm supposed to be working on my Patreon page... but I've felt like crap lately (seasonal allergies) so I've been writing a lot lately instead. I also need to revive and clean out my Advance Readers listing, so I can start using external editors again. Soon.

60+ pages done of a 'New' long novel, but it won't appear here for at least another month, if not longer. FIRST, I will update (and finish) "Across the River" and then do the same with "Dragons of the Night".

THEN... all new stuff for awhile, when the incomplete tales are done.

My cable modem finally burned out (it was 10+ years old) so I had it take it into the local Xfinity shop to get it replaced. They (six of them) stared at it with wonder and disbelief, having never seen that model ever before. So, they give me the wrong type of cable modem and I get back home... and of course it won't work.

4+ hours on the phone with Xfinity support (guys in India) ensues and accomplishes nothing. So I take new cable modem back to store and they replace it with a different model (the correct one). Still doesn't work.

2+ more hours on the phone with support... accomplishes nothing. Get an appointment for a service call technician to come and fix problem. Tech comes... and says 'I've seen this problem once before, five + years ago..." it's a billing problem and not a hardware issue. He leaves... no internet still.

Off back to Xfinity store, and 'Yes' it is a billing issue! I was (10+ years ago) originally an Earthlink customer, which was then bought and is now part of Comcast/Xfinity... but the billing is technically different. So I had to change my internet service plan - and then the new modem would work! So 5+ days without internet!

Next to last chapter of 'I'm going to make it" is posted. Chapter 12 will be the last one. Maybe done for this weekend, but I'm a week behind on everything I needed to do last week.

Fleet Girl bombed horribly. It was just a silly idea that was in my head that I thought deserved a little attention. I may write a chapter 3 for it anyway, since that's the part of the story that I actually most wanted to tell :/

Chapter Two of Fleet Girl had a bunch of typos... fixed now, not that anyone cares

More of the on-going, but now almost completed "I'm Going to Make It all the Way" has been posted. The next chapter is 99% ready to go too, and will probably be posted on Wednesday. Not too much left to go, until 'DONE'.

A new story, "Fleet Girl" is up. Chapter Two for it will be posted tomorrow, 99% sure. It was an idea that forced it's way into my head over the weekend and I wrote it all out in two sittings. This was a story concept that lends itself far too easily to satire... and this time I tried to play it seriously. I could have gone crazy with this and used the Humor code, but I resisted.

I'll be marking the story as "done' after Chapter Two, but I have thoughts of doing another few chapters sometime later on - if there is an interest. I'd even be open to the idea of opening Fleet Girls as an Universe that other authors could contribute stories to. We'll see.

Next up, is the next (overdue) chapter to "Baleful Sky". Yes, kind readers... "Dragons of the Night" is getting an update soon also!

I've build a Patreon page... but it's still 99% empty. I need to load up some drafts and other content for it soonish.

But with some errors, for my first posting. It's a mess atm but Laz should be fixing it in a few minutes.

Chapter 9 -and- Chapter 10 are also both 'done' and at least one of them will get posted this weekend. Chapter 11 might be the last one until 'Done'. Going to try and finish the draft of it this weekend also.

In a tale so unbelievable that it wouldn't even make a believable Stultus story, I've somehow managed to regain access to my Author's Blog & Wiki on Google! I literally had been unable to login (as the owner) to make edits for over FOUR YEARS! It used to be an independent Blogging web host, but when Google took it over about five years ago they started require a lot account management changes (like mergers with my regular 'RL' Google account) that weren't do-able... and then suddenly it wouldn't ever let me login again!

WHY it's working now... I have no clue. I was using their old Classic Site format, which is now moot and obsolete - and with no muss or fuss it let me run the update to their 'new' site format, which admittedly looks better. I could also rename the site URL to what I'd always wanted in the first place /stultus (the original site had errored out on my first 10+ names I'd picked - that's now fixed. Yea!

NEW (improved?) Stultus Author's Blog & Story Wiki: https://sites.google.com/view/stultus

Please let me know if it's working for external viewers, so I can slowly start updating it again.

Asked a while back if there was interest in my creating a Patreon page for advance reading of stories, voting for your preference for new stories or chapters, and just general support. Most (3/4ths) said yes. I also must have had over 50 individual emails over the last year or so 'suggesting' that I set one up. Well, I've started the process. Not ready for primetime yet, but I 'plan' to have it functional before New Years.

Others have also suggested Laz's side-project Bookapy. Maybe... it would make sense.

The next chapter of Baleful Sky is ready to send out for editing. IF I can finish Chapter 10 of When the Hunter, I'd like to post it Christmas Eve. If I miss that deadline, Baleful instead will get posted next week sometime.