Watch Out For Punctuation

Punctuation. I didn’t think it would be such a big problem, but some of the sites that track this blog’s progress struggled on the last post, most likely because it finished on an exclamation mark. It’s one of those things, having written software in the past, that is stumbled across from time to time. You have to make a decision how to process incoming information and you select certain characters or combinations of characters as filters / end markers. It works great in testing, only to find the real world doesn’t work as well as your testing environment. Quite obviously, it’s a problem with the real world and not the testing.
I received some interesting feedback from one of my proof reading team in the last couple of days. This particular proof reader doesn’t read erotica other than when I pass along a manuscript for review. The first bit of feedback that really cheered me was that they would happily buy that particular manuscript when it was published.
For someone who avoids the genre completely, even going so far as to skip sections of their other romance novels that are similar, it’s quite an endorsement. The second piece came on another recently developed script, with the feedback being that it resulted in quite a definite real world outcome.
With such endorsement, I might have to change my plans for which stories are released next. Or, I could just accelerate the release program so that there is less time between the next few titles.
As the sidebar indicates, I completed another story today, effectively from scratch. There was a little bit of framework in place before today, but when I finished it was a whole new story that sat there. I seem to be on a bit of a writing streak at the moment, so I’ll see what I can do to keep it going on.
I just hope my new bundle of ISBNs turn up soon, or else I’ll be in the position of having to order even more, having used them all up before I got them. My editor is also going to be busy for a while. Look for the next set of stories in the next couple of weeks.