I'm putting the finishing touches on Chapter 9 and will be sending it to the editors tonight. The first 8 chapters are finished and ready to be formatted for posting. It takes me about 10 hours to write a chapter, then the editors slice it up and send it back to me. I fix the obvious errors and we go back and forth on the questionable 'fixes' till I finally surrender. Total time spent writing and massaging a chapter runs me about 12 hours real time. If things go well with Chapter 9 tonight, I'm hoping to have the last three chapters of Linda's Posse done by the end of this month. I don't want to start posting until it's finished. Several Linda fans have begged (okay, asked) me to start posting early but I'm holding out for a salary bonus! So far, I have well over 100 hours of my time invested in writing a sequel to Retribution.
Like I've said in several places, most recently at the tag end of Paige Hawthornes story 'Winter's Woes' the only recompense we get for writing is feedback from readers. Whether it's in the form of comments or the mail system or voting on our work. Without that feedback, most authors on here would quit writing. I've noticed that most stories here get around 1% of the downloads who bother to vote. That's tragic. Voting only takes a second. Commenting or feedback to the author takes a minute. That's what feeds us. Sustains us. Keeps us writing. If you have an author you like, or a story you enjoy, tell the author! If you don't like it, don't read anymore offerings by that particular writer. Authors here are amateurs. We have fragile egos. If you want all of us to keep spending our time and efforts providing the best stories we're capable of, do your part. Feedback! Vote! Please. It means the world to us writers. Thanks.