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Steve’s Update 12/29/2018

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Hope you all had a good Christmas! Let’s catch up on my projects!

So what have I done the last week(s)? A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: Is selling in ebook format and I have a print copy I’ve gone through to look for issues and formatting mistakes. Good news is that it looks good, but I did see a few more typos than I’d like to admit. Got a marked-up book and an improved cover file.Way With Wor...

Steve’s Creative Resources 12/28/2018

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Hey all! I collect various creative resources at Seventh Sanctum’s Nexus page, and I figured it’d be worth posting them now and then as I expand them.

This round has a lot of self-publishing resources! Let me know of any other resources you’d like to see so I can keep adding them!

Art Sources FreePixabay – A source for art that is free as well as royalty-free. There’s a lot here, and much o...

Steve’s Update 12/23/2018

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We’re all heading for the holidays, so let’s catch up! Also you may note this is appearing all over – I’m diversifying my posting base.

So what have I done the last week(s)? A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: Is selling in ebook format!  So print is next. I’ve got the document print-formatted now – which thanks to some Open Office tools and formatting choices was easier than I thought. There’s som...

Hyperspace Delivery Service – A Game That Works

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Recently my gaming attention has been taken up by Hyperspace Delivery Service by Zotnip Games. This is one of those games worth analysis – and not just in game design.

At it’s core, Hyperspace Delivery Service is about a crew and it’s commander (that’s you) delivering important cargo to a distant world. It’s done in a retro-DOS style that hearkens back to games that realized they could “fuse”...

Writing Plans For Next Year

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As the Holidays approach and the year ends, I wanted to round up what I’m doing writing-wise for everyone.  So let’s go – in what may be some kind of order.

First, the next Way With Worlds Minibook is up and will be out soon – it’s on Organizations!  That one really just needs formatting, so it’s definitely out in December.

Secondly, somewhere in all of this is the print copy of A Bridge To Th...

Steve’s Update 12/15/2018

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Hello all!  Hope you’re doing well!  So let’s catch up on where all my projects are!

So what have I done the last week(s)? A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: Done!  Out!  Published as in ebook format!  I’ve already sold a few copies (some of which weren’t to friends), and set up marketing and promos.Way With Worlds: Not much this week, though it is looking promising.  Seventh Sanctum: I got out the...

A Bridge To The Quiet Planet: A Few Thoughts On The Final Run

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All right, A Bridge To The Quiet Planet is out.  Done.  So it was a bit later than I expected, and the final run on it gave me food for thought.

WATCH SWITCHING BETWEEN SOFTWARE: I found some annoying artifacts from moving from one piece of software to another – there can be subtle differences.   I had to do some annoying search and replaces.

THINK OVER STYLISTIC CHOICES EARLY AND FOLLOW UP: Y...

History Will Judge, But We Do Anyway

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My friend Serdar had a very insightful post on how we compare our  creative work to others.  He realize’s it’s a bit of a fools game:

My work can only really be measured against my other work. It can be compared to other work, and I guess you can draw lessons about what it might lack or where it might excel, but those lessons only really help to shape the directions you choose to take for your...

A Bridge To The Quiet Planet Is Out!

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It’s out – A Bridge To The Quiet Planet, my somewhat sarcastic techno-fantasy tale of people living in a post-post-apocalyptic world of magic, gods, and technology.  With the world stable, the worst thing you could do is mess it up . . .

. . . and our protagonists manage to put themselves into deep danger of doing that.

You can find the eBook at Amazon right now, and I’m planning to do other f...

The Social Self As A Business

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To mark this post historically, this was posted the day Tumblr decided to cut out some adult content (it’s hard to tell exactly what they meant, it got weird)  This was quickly followed by an algorithm that clearly was terrible not doing it’s job, and leaving people to discuss leaving.  When you can’t exactly spell out a vision for what you want to do, that vision seems to be “stop some nudity...