Omachuck: Blog

I hope you are enjoying Labor Day.

I'm out in western Nebraska visiting my mother for a couple of weeks. A Windows 10 update messed up my laptop and my wife's so I'm using an old old 'puter until I can get home and resolve the issues.

Caleb and Cheval Jaune is with my first readers and editors. It will then go to the proofreader stage. I'm guessing it will start posting towards the end of September. Caleb is a story that begins after the Harrad Colony is established and gives a few glimpses of Pern, the colony's home planet, and tracks a new weapon authorized by the Tuull.

I've started to read my two DiD stories, Pēteris and Monica Mechanic, so that I can begin a sequel. I find myself enjoying Pēteris even I was the one who wrote it. If you like the Damsels In Distress stories, you might like to read or reread mine to get the characters back in mind. Or maybe you should wait, as I've not yet started, and I'm a slow writer...

My thanks to everyone who reported the messed up last posting. I have submitted a correction. The correct order should be chapter 12, Epilogue, Character list.

I have made corrections to all the other typos etc, that you folks so kindly noted - so once the chapter order is fixed, the story should be clean for all you folks who download for their e-readers. Check the the character list, and if it is not centered, it's okay.

Chapter 12 and the Epilogue load tomorrow morning, and this adventure concludes.

So, yes, a successful mutiny can be carried out on a Confederacy ship, even with an AI aboard. AIs aren't perfect, after all.

As I write this, Mutiny has the highest score of any of my stories. Looks like you folks enjoyed it as much as I did. Please vote, if you haven't yet.

On the the next...

Chapter Nine: Fishin' In Neverland queued up for tomorrow morning.

Vivie wants to extract children, so she goes hunting for strays. Vivie 7 Pimps 0.

One of the reasons I don't immediately post an entire story, even though it is ostensibly finished: Readers make suggestions that enhance what I've written.

For example, a comment today cause me to modify a paragraph in chapter 7. I added two sentences that, to me at least, better explained Tuull bravery. They aren't pacifist as we think of pacifism, they simply aren't capable of violence against sapient beings. Kipling's Gunga Din praises the Tuull type of bravery.

So the paragraph now reads:

She looked Vivie in the eye and told her, "And you, my dear, will be the first and likely the only being to set foot on the planet Tuull that has deliberately killed another sapient being. You are going to pick a song and explain it to them and help them understand why humans believe killing might be necessary. Maybe you can contrast Saddler with Ochs and show refusal to kill can also be considered heroic by humans. Then, and I think you should be the one to recite it; we'll end with Kipling's Gunga Din. An explanation may not even be needed. It speaks to the heart of Tuull-type bravery."