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So, I'd had these stories I'd written a while back, set in Shaddoth's 'Axeman' universe. I had three complete and a fourth one, well, maybe about half-done but I wasn't really working on them anymore. Jason 2, another Mike & Shirley story, the second half of "The First Command", I've got a lot of unfinished work.
But, the site administrator here got tired of my whining and created an "Axeman" universe for stories that other writers had come up with. Oh. Well, crap. I should post mine!
Now, the first three were DONE, but they weren't PROOFREAD. I hadn't been able to talk anyone into doing that kind of work. For free. So, I put the first one up. I got a lot of feedback. It doesn't look anywhere near as polished as the rest of my stories. Well, yeah, all of my old proofreaders are retired. Where'm I gonna get a new set?
Turns out, I can ask all those poor innocent readers who emailed me saying I mis-spelled supercalifragelisticexpialidocious. Ya know, you caught THIS, and I'm about to publish M2. You wanna see if you can find any mistakes in it?
Even though I didn't ask most of them until Saturday afternoon and I was planning on posting Chapter 1 at 8 Monday morning, I got answers back from four different 'volunteers' in time to fold all their corrections into the posted version. If M2 looks a little more polished than M1 did, well, it's their fault. I'll list all the proofreaders who helped at the end of the story, but the first four names are already set.
Oh, yeah. Chapter one of "Missile 2" is up.
-ZM
As I've posted before, I have trouble with formatting here. The site won't keep original indentation, but that can be changed by viewer preferences, so that's okay. More important, with simple text you can group related paragraphs by adding a space between groups. However, here EVERY paragraph has a blank line after it, so minor paragraph grouping is lost.
And, apparently, somehow my ASCII text formatting for the 'Status' display in 'Missile' isn't good enough. Instead of adding a blank line between each line of text like usual, for that the site jammed it all together into one line.
I'm looking on a fix....
-ZM
I know, I'm SPOSTABE working on Jason 2, for the Damsels in Distress universe, and I really need to polish up my "Squadron Command" which is the 10-years-late second half of "The First Command", for the Swarm Cycle universe, and I've got like 20 more half-written stories, but sometimes some bug bites me and I'm off on another tangent.
I've got three short stories finished in Shaddoth's "Axeman" universe with a 4th one in the works and notes for a few more, so with the Axeman universe now actually existing I'm posting them. Each story will post one chapter per day until done. Oh, and none of them have really been properly proofread, so even if I forget to turn comments on I want readers to let me know where I have mis-spelled words and the punctuation is wrong.
It's been 5 years since Shaddoth gave us his masterpiece "Axeman". He last blogged about working on "Axeman 2", but he had personal problems, medical problems, financial problems... and we haven't heard from him in a while. That story was so popular that several (that I know of) others have written follow-on stories set in that universe. I've cranked out a few myself, all short stories about one of the 15yo kids that get caught up in the trouble.
Well, I must have said something stupid somewhere, because every so often some stranger will email me about when I'm setting up an 'Axeman Universe' to collect all those stories. Uh, I really can't. I mean, I can using my own account, but only Shaddoth can add his story to it if it's my universe. And, what would be the point if his story wasn't in it?
So, I've been hassling the site administrator about it for a while. If I create an Axeman universe, will he put Shaddoth's original story in it? If/when he comes back, we'll transfer the damn thing to his account. Naturally, he's always refused. Only the writer should be able to add his stories to another universe.
Well, a few days ago it happened again, so I promptly sent LJ (the admin here) another whine. "Yet another writer is on me to create an Axeman universe!" I guess he got tired of it, because _he_ did it, putting it under Shaddoth's account as an open universe. I can't mess with it, but that's certainly good enough! Although, I couldn't find it. I had to bother LJ again, and he told me that a new universe isn't visible to readers until it has at least TWO stories in it. Someone posting a new story can see it on the list of available universes, but people just reading don't see it.
Oh, okay, sure. Well, here, add this 'Writer's Guide" essay to it. While you're at it, throw in Morningfrost's "Warhammer" story, and I'll go ahead and start posting my first "Missile" story there as well.
And I told James Girvan, who has added all his "Beer League" stories, too. Frankly, his stories should all be listed before mine, but I don't have access to fix that. Only Shaddoth and LJ can do that, and I've bothered LJ enough for this week.
Anyway, it's here: https://storiesonline.net/universe/1426/axeman-universe
I just finished uploading the rest of the chapters for "Basketball Terror 2". They are all queued to be released every other day. The final chapter should come out on 3/31.
BBT-2 was a continuation of an old Paladin story. I'm disappointed in the reception, but that's what I get for sticking my nose into someone else's story, right? Maybe I should just write my own stuff.
-ZM
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