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I’m unsure what happened, yet I did post another new chapter today, it just wasn’t listen on the series update list. So, if you didn’t see it, it’s there whenever you click to update the story.
I don’t recall doing anything unusual, other than posting it at a different time, but … Again, I’ll be posting the usual Thursday update too, as the story was already delayed enough from my recent hospitalization.
Sorry for the posting delay, but I was hospitalized for over a week, and this time, the ambulance took me away utterly naked (apparently) and I didn’t wake up, until I’d been flown (helicopter) 250mi away.
Again, I’m back, but yesterday was about getting my sea legs, and since I didn’t have ANYTHING while there, I not only couldn’t post, I also couldn't do ANYTHING, not write, nor even play cards. That was agonizing. All that time just sitting on my damn hands!
So I’ll start some creative writing, just so any revisions sound fresh, so I’ll probably resume Nowhere … Like Home? on Tuesday, but … I do have some updates I can wrap up and potentially post earlier (no promises, as it depends on my editors).
Again, sorry, but I’ll be working overtime to get back on schedule again! This is what happens when SOL authors get older, we get sick and fumble relatively simple things a LOT! ;)
After some extensive editing, I’m reposting chs. 3 - 10. There were major changes to ch. 1, though they weren’t completed, so I’ll have to double back for those, and the updates will continue.
Though, as always, if I post an update, before posting a new chapter (ex: mid-afternoon the day before) it’ll often screw up the new posts, so most people will miss them.
So, the edits are continuing.
I just noticed that Nowhere … Like Home?, has now set my all-time comment high, at 63, as of Tues. Jan 21, previously, the highest story comment count was The Demons Within, at 50, the next closest was a mere 30. So thanks for the interest, as getting readers to comment is often a viable indicator of a story’s true impact with readers, as scores alone often reflect a lot of different issues. Yet with comments, the readers themselves are telling you both what’s good, and what doesn’t work well.
Switching to a once-a-week strategy is definitely helping, as I’m now three chapters ahead (ch. 9 - 12), but a three-chapter lead isn’t nearly as healthy as a six-week lead, so I’ll post the chapter 9 on Thursday, as planned, but continue the once-a-week posting for another week, before returning to twice-a-week postings.
A lot of the issue was getting back into the regular posting schedule after being away from it for so long, and I feel like I’m adjusting, yet I’m not yet ready to cut the cord entirely quite yet. But, I now have several editors working on the story, so hopefully the chapters will be edited, before posting from now on, though no guarantees yet. But things are definitely looking better.
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