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Thank You Betas!

Hi, everybody. I just got done sending out a group message to the beta team, thanking them for their help.

But then I thought “Fuck that, they deserve a public thank you, as well.”

So… thank you to Team Yes members who helped out with this round. I know everyone always says “We couldn’t do this without you”, but it couldn’t be truer in this case. Though short, these episodes take an insane amount of work, and without y’all’s guidance, I’d have given up long ago.

THANK YOU!

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Progress

I’m pre-coffee and it’s Monday, so I don’t guarantee much by way of coherence in the following update:

We’ll be wrapping up beta this week. Episode 13 still needs some cuts and clean-up, but we’re getting there.

Soon. I promise.

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Updates

Just a few things today:

Episode 13 finally made it out to beta readers, so we’re getting a lot closer!
I’m having trouble deciding what to release as an excerpt. I might not even release one before the book releases. Once you see how the episode is built, you’ll understand why I’m having trouble. The spoiler-potential is astronomical on this one.
I am rebuilding the ebook code for episodes 10 – 12 to make it easier later on when I want to mush everything into one volume. If you get update notices for these files, that’s why.

Back into the coding cave with me. Have a good one!

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I Hate Ragweed

From deep in the last-minute revisions cave, I emerge briefly to congratulate our July, 2015 Giveaway winner:

Kathryne

Congrats, Kathryne! I would stick around and celebrate, but I reckon y’all would rather have Episode 13 than a blog post, so…

Yeah. Congrats again, and good luck this month, everyone else.

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Fair Warning

I’m posting this at the request of two of our alpha readers. They advise that it might be helpful for readers to revisit FH Season One before picking up Episode 13 (aka The Episode No Josh Fan Should Miss. Also The Episode That Almost Killed Its Author).

Now, normally when I hear something like this from an alpha-reader (or a beta-reader) I would take it to mean I’m not doing my job well enough to help people remember names and events. But then I remember I’m writing a serial, not a series, and not a small one, either. We tend not to waste a lot of words on anything; few characters or events are throwaways. Emma and I are brutal with the editing. If something survived the cutting room floor, it means something.

So I’m caving in this time and saying yeah, you might be a little lost if it’s been a long time since you’ve revisited Season One. I myself have to do a complete read-through of the entire series, still, to make sure I didn’t screw up any continuity stuff. (Oh the torture of re-reading the phone scene, which is still a favorite.)

So. There it is, your fair warning that Pressure calls up some past events and characters.

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Giveaway Reminder

There’s only a couple more days to enter this month’s giveaway. Don’t forget, and good luck!

Lots more progress last week—Really busy day ahead, too, so let’s do this!

Have a great Monday!

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Thank God It’s Monday

/clutching keyboard

Soooo glad to be back at the writing desk today. Now if I could just get babycat out of my office plants…

Have a great one!

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Kaboom

Rather a lot more excitement around here yesterday than I’d really like; major storms, power out for 8 hours. Parts of town STILL have no power after 14+ hours.

/wince

One good thing did come of it, however. My children will never again mock me when I tell them they had better get their phones on the charger in case the weather gets as bad as the forecast says.

And now to take advantage of all this glorious electricity to get some revisions done… Have a great Monday!

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Interesting Convo

So I was on the phone with Emma over lunch today, discussing revisions, and we got onto the topic of the “strong heroine”. Everyone talks about this as an archetype. It’s even a Netflix category, but it’s funny to me how one-dimensional “strong” appears to be.

How do we define strength in a heroine? Is she kick-ass, like physically strong? That seems to be the extent of it for a lot of folks.

What about emotional strength?

Spiritual strength?

Mental strength?

Moral strength?

Jane Eyre would be an awesome example of that last one.

Anyway, I thought it was an interesting discussion. Maybe light a thoughtful fire for other writers to get some ideas flowing.

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Um, Canada?

Lots of progress last week. Cross your fingers that continues this week.

And damn, Canada… Is the entire country on fire or something? Y’all’s smoke is killing my eyes. (I can’t even imagine what it must be like up there, seeing how things have been all the way down here.)

Anyway, happy Monday! Have a great week.

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