Lazlo Zalezac: Blog

I posted the end of Commune today (actually it is now yesterday). I enjoyed working on it, but understand how others might not enjoy it. I realize that the topic is a bit depressing, particularly for individuals who might be going through circumstances similar to those described within the story.

I suppose that I ought to let it be known that 2/3 of the story had been written in November as part of my attempt to do a NaNoWriMo novel. I completed the required number of words by the end of November, but I didn't get to the end of the story. I held off publishing it, but life has gotten very busy and I had to ease off on writing. Rather than disappear for six months, I chose to start putting the novel on SOL. I raced to finish it before running out of chapters to upload. I just barely made it. Real life has been kicking the daylights out of my muse of late.

Some have wondered why I haven't been posting Magic. Well, Magic has taken a minor backseat to Commune because I didn't really want three unfinished novels hanging around while I was busy working. I'll be working a bit more on Magic now that Commune is done. I can't promise much, but I might be able to get out one chapter a week.

I sometimes think that a few fans believe that I'm a retired old guy who writes to occupy a bit of my time. I wish. The fact is that I work a full-time job that occasionally turns into more than a full-time job. When you get impatient for a new chapter, just remember that I'm doing this stuff for free and as a hobby. Have patience. I still have plenty of story ideas.

I have a new website thanks to the efforts and support of Sysyphus. Due to my hectic schedule, it has taken almost eight months to upload all of the chapters of my stories. The website is divided into two major parts: The Facts of Life and Stories.

The Facts of Life side is a wiki with a copy of the Millionaire Next Door and a rather limited start on the three articles referenced in the story. There is a lot of work to do yet. (You can give people the link to the Facts of Life Site and avoid the main page that leads to both.) I made it a wiki so that others can add their takes on the facts of life and contribute to the three articles.

The Story side of the site requires that individuals swear that they are of age to read stories of an adult nature and create an account. There is no charge to create an account. There is still a bit of work to do on the site. I have to add some forums, etc.

I have received a few e-mails asking if I am feeling alright since I haven't been posting much of late. The fact is that I've been busy with work. I will remain busy for the next six weeks at a minimum, but I will try to post a chapter when I can. Sorry for the delay, but the demands of real life trump hobbies.

The saga of William Redman Carter has come to an end. It is a quiet end; appropriate for a man who holds the future of the world in his hands. They say that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That is true except when a Power That Be gets involved.

Today I posted a chapter of Magic that brought my accumulated total of posted text to 19M of text on SOL. It was kind of an interesting landmark. And I'm not sure what it I think of it. There are still about 2M of text that has not been recovered from the lightning strike that ruined my network and the stories saved on them.

19M is a strange landmark to celebrate. It represents the posts of approximately 28 stories with 3 of them still in progress.

The last chapter of Mike Radford: Accidental Hero has been posted. I left a lot of lose ends dangling that make for a good beginning of a story or three. This was one of the chapters that wasn't recovered completely after my computer went down after the lightning strike. I'm glad to get the story finished and I'm looking forward to starting another story or two in the Damsels in Distress universe.

I lost two chapters of Quatyl and three chapters of William Redman Carter. The originals versions of those chapters are gone forever. They are unrecoverable and I'm trying to rewrite them. It will take some time since they were middle chapters. Nothing is worse than trying to reproduce material in the middle of a story.