VeryWellAged: Blog

On this February 5, a reader of my efforts told me one of my early works published here "was the random story this evening." I looked at the activity panel an author can see, of the number of times a work has been downloaded. Clearly the numbers reading that 'random story' had jumped. Since them it appears that the interest in all of my works published here has been invigorated. And, yes, it is flattering.

It is also a fair bit frustrating. You see, it has been over ten years since I stopped posting new work here. A Canadian law required the very decent, honest, and capable webmaster to tell me to either write something that fit the new guidelines or just to stop posting.

I kept on writing, initially posting my newer works on the old ASSTR site while it still functioned and then, finally, on my own, eponymously titled, website.

I am still writing and posting there. Even the stories, which you can read here are there. Most of those have been, updated, corrected and enhanced. The entire body of my work is there. Only a little from the early days are what exists here. And so, you see, possibly, the frustration. My works as you read them here as not as how I wish them to be read.

I am pleased to announce the release of my novel Plan. It can be found on my website, VeryWellAged.com, at the bottom of my list of works in print.

A friend (who has yet to provide me with his penname and so for now he will be anonymous) is working on writing his own stories, ones that bring a perspective I don't have and find fascinating. He asked a question to which I was sure I knew the answer, but he thinks I may be wrong. As I have been wrong often enough in this life, we have decided to conduct a poll. He and I invite all of you to vote on the questions linked to in my NOTES page on my VeryWellAged dot com website.

All formats of the new novel, based on the novella here, are now posted on VeryWellAged.com. While I and my editors have endeavored to remove the errors, some of you will find some of those that got away. Please be so kind as to report them!

The sequel is written and has been sent off for editing. However, I don’t expect to post that on my website until October.

As I prepare to shortly remove the novella version of Gang Aft Agley from my website (VeryWellAged.com) in favor of the new novel of the same name (a reworking of that story now in novel form, it struck me that I needed to preserve what has existed, even though I do not want it presented on the site as the ‘official’ version of that title any more. Still removing it entirely, erasing it, seems like a step too destructive. For the time being, I have moved my local copies the ebooks, PDF and HTML versions of the novella in a local archive folder that will also be backed up for preservation.

The novella still exists on my website, as the novel is still being edited. (An earlier and error filled version still exists here on the SOL website. But the SOL version here is plagued with errors.) My official novella version will give way yet later this month to the novel and no longer be available for download. Will anyone really care? Is this a silent rage into that good night? I don’t know if this is pure ego, or has some meaning. All I know is that I have done it.