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Fragments, Questioner's Shadow, Writing

Questioner’s Shadow Draft Finished!

With 4200 words today, I tagged the end on to Questioner’s Shadow. It feels good to have it in the bag. For the past three weeks, I’ve wondered if I’d get there, and now, I’m there.

You’ll notice, if you were playing along at home, that it’s a little shorter than the length I’d estimated, but the target numbers on the progress bar are always a guess. I’m not writing to a length. I’m trying to guess the size of the story from some very fudgy data. The fact that I came within 1500 words is awesome to me.

What’s next?

It’ll sit alone in the StoryBox kettle for a couple weeks to cure, and then I’ll pull it out and start working it into shape, adding whatever I missed, and basically trying to sort out any really egregious errors. Then, I’ll send it to my readers, and a month later, they’ll return it with all my failings pointed out. I’ll fix the problems they show me, and then I’ll work on publishing it. If all goes well, a few months from now, you’ll be able to read it in its final form.

During that time, I’ll be working on the draft of Fragments – the second book of A Wizard’s Work. I’m excited to get to work on it.

Now, off to watch a movie or something and relax.

Questioner's Shadow, Shattered, Writing

Shattered Paperback Now at Amazon!

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Now you can get the Shattered paperback from Amazon.

I don’t have much else to say today because I have to go get some tires changed, but you can see that I’m making progress on Questioner’s Shadow. I started Act 3 yesterday. It’s all downhill from here, I hope.

What that means is that I get to start on Fragments, the sequel to Shattered, soon. Maybe early June.

Off to get the tires changed.

Software, StoryBox

StoryBox 1.3.109 Released (Critical Update)

Please update to 1.3.109. I found a bug today that I thought I had fixed, but it turned out worse than I thought. I’ve fixed it, and you really should update to this build as I don’t know when I introduced it. I’m certain it goes back at least as far as the .106 build.

The problem had to do with rearranging documents in the document tree. Their order wouldn’t get updated correctly in the project, causing potential conflicts when viewing index cards or outlines.

I’m sorry for the inconvenience.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

Software, StoryBox

StoryBox 1.3.108 Released

Some minor features and a few bug fixes. The biggest feature is that StoryBox now keeps track of the session word count as well. You can toggle between the display by clicking the “Daily/Session” word count bar on either the main screen or the full screen view.

The biggest fix is for Kindle ePub export. Paragraphs with no text indent should now be properly formatted, and the text indent size should match closer to what you have set in your project. Don’t forget that you can directly upload an ePub to KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing). The conversion in my one test with Shattered works great.

http://www.storyboxsoftware.com/download.htm

Questioner's Shadow, Writing

Questioner’s Shadow Soundtrack

Sometimes when I write, I listen to music. Other times, I turn it off. I’ve never really been a playlist creator, generally listening to whatever I feel like at the time.

However, on Questioner’s Shadow, I decided to make a playlist. It contains a couple unsigned bands (Whitcomb and Iron Thrones). The Whitcomb album can be found on Amazon (like the rest). I don’t know about the Iron Thrones albums, so I linked to them. Here’s the list (not in any particular order), band first, and then album(s).

Hurt – Goodbye To The Machine, The Re-Consumation, Vol. 1, Vol II
Opeth – Black Water Park, Damnation, Deliverance, Ghost Reveries, My Arms Your Hearse, Watershed
Iron Thrones – Visions of Light, The Wretched Sun
Dream Theater – Systematic Chaos
Katatonia – Viva Emptiness
Whitcomb – Crown Park
The Sword – Age of Winters, Gods of the Earth, Warp Riders
Mushroomhead – XIII, XX
Fair To Midland – Fables From A Mayfly
Mastadon – Crack The Skye