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I've had a few people reach out to me recently, wondering if I died, I suppose :) I'm still around and slowly working on the story. Life just got hectic, and I've had to focus on work more than usual. The story has taken a back seat, but I am still working on it. I hope to have another chapter out this weekend.
Stay safe, folks.
-Spook
Updated chapters are in the queue. I think I got all of the suggestions I agreed with. Have at it, if you want to give it another look. I even took a look at fixing some readability with the early chapters.
I just put the latest chapter in the queue and while I was at it I went ahead and added the new tag. This chapter doesn't get into it, but coming soon there will be a change in the direction of the story.
I wanted to give a fair warning in case it's not your cup of tea.
-Spook
Several readers have been helpfully catching my occasional missteps. Please continue to do so if you are so inclined. Whether they be typos or brain farts, I do want them to be corrected. Eventually. But I've come to respect a few things about my writing, and I've made a plan I think I can live with.
The first lesson: If I try to outline my story I will feel like I have already written it and it will cause me to be unable to continue writing it. That is exactly what happened to my first story and I won't make that mistake again.
The second lesson: When writing a story, I don't like to stop writing it to do revisioning. Shifting gears to fix something of substance from a previous chapter really breaks my creative stride.
What you are reading is usually posted the day after I have finished writing it. If you're lucky I've re-read it a couple of times, but it's surprisingly hard to see the errors when you already know the way it's supposed to be.
So I am noting the little issues as they are being pointed out and I am correcting these tiny things in my copies of the chapters. These are easy and pose no issue, and after a suitable time, I may periodically update an old chapter.
Doing things like trying to fix up the many style issues I had in the first three chapters is going to have to wait for me to finish the story before I can even think about how I would want to fix them.
I hope these things don't impede your enjoyment of the story too much. Stay safe and healthy folks.
-Spook
I will start with an apology for not making any further progress on Everywhen. I just hit the wall on it and couldn't ever bring myself back to writing the story. Truly, I tried over and over again but just could never find it in myself to make any real progress. Maybe someday that will change, but I wouldn't hold your breath at this point.
Recently I got the urge to start a new story, and I just posted the first 4 chapters of it. I don't foresee the same issues that I ran into with the other. But you roll the dice and you take your chances.
-Spook
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