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1:3 is now proofed, tweaked in minor and unimportant ways in terms of plot, and in the queue for uploading.

Clee

Proof-read reposting, with minor and inconsequential edits so, unless you are a completionist reading along with the uploads, nothing changed.

Clee

Repost is queued up.

If you've read it before, there's nothing much changed other than a littly tidying of vocabulary.

Clee

Had a quick look at 1:15 with a view to reposting with the 'correct' ending.

Oh.

Looks like there is a lot more proof-reading needing to be done.

Consequently, I'm going to proof-read the whole of Book One in order before getting into the edits and uploading of Book Two. This is, I know, a delay, but it will mean that I have a much better hold of how my characters act and think and speak going into Book Two, so it will be for the best.

Looking at 1:!5, they seem so young, now, given I know where they are three months later when their lives are a lot more complex.

For now, then, it's time to load up typewriter fonts and coloured backdrops on 1:1...

Cheers...Clee

Wilhelm 2 is coming!

No, really it is!

Book Two will run for a total of twenty-two chapters, twenty of which are done as first drafts...and now I'm stopping writing of those first drafts to get into prepping Book Two.

It's not as crazy as it sounds.

Between the hand grenades of real life and wanting to think things through even more thoroughly than I did for Book One, it has taken quite some time to put down the first drafts, with Book Two beginning for me back in April 2018. Moreover, Book One began back in June 2017, and I've been working on 'Wilhelm' as much as I can since then.

And that's the problem, in a way.

With this story being something of a diary with each chapter representing one day, whilst it has only been two weeks between Luke buying The Thing and getting to finally have sex with his sister, and then only another three weeks from then to the end of Book Two, for me it's been a lot longer.

Consequently it is easy to forget that though Luke and Stef and Leri - and others! - have been 'doing things' in my head for almost eighteen months, for them it is a lot less. As I've got further and further into Book Two, I have become conscious of feeling further and further disconnected from their calendar, meaning they are more likely to do things in my head because, in my head, they are more 'matured' than they actually are in the story.

So.

The final two chapters of Book Two have been 'parked', not least because I know exactly where they are headed in terms of plot and 'parking' them will not risk anything in terms of things which might need to be included in the preceding chapters.

Therefore, I'm taking a week off from writing other than to upload the revamped 1:15 over the New Year's holiday, after which I will re-read Book One (uploading typo corrections as I find them) and following which I will edit and upload Book Two. That way I hope that I can keep 'in their heads' and so keep my characters more consistent with who they were rather than who they've grown into in my head.

So what will happen in Book Two? Plenty of revelations about The Thing, lots of fun with Luke and Stef, Leri gets into the act in all kinds of unexpected ways, and new characters bring a little drama, quite a bit of comedy, and a few touching moments into the story. Plus puns, Welsh, and the first threats that this summer won't last forever.

Onward!
Clee