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A Long Two Weeks

It’s technically work time, so this will be quick. Chapter 27 is Marcy in the dungeon, from the outside. It takes two weeks for her to out-level our intrepid heroes. That’s a year and seven months inside. Getting the timelines to line up so they could interact was brutal, but I got it! When sheContinue reading “A Long Two Weeks”

How Do You Know You’re Old?

You write an apocalypse scene and: The intrepid heroes try to call their friends and can’t get through They send texts They go to the car to see what’s on the radio If you don’t see what’s missing from that list, you’re old. I don’t know if the phone/Intertube connections will be working or not.Continue reading “How Do You Know You’re Old?”

Prompt Skillz – Third Result

“Third” is probably “final”. Not only are they all blurring together, but I have a lot of decent choices. The odds of anything better showing up are low. two distinct foreground people (large black wolf:1.4) AND (muscular man:1.1) in bluejeans, tight white t-shirt, boots, glowing axe, outside, dry hills, moonlight, photo fantasy style, [anime], [cartoon]Continue reading “Prompt Skillz – Third Result”

Prompt Skillz – Second Results

two distinct foreground people (large black wolf:1.4) AND (muscular man:1.1) in bluejeans, tight white t-shirt, boots, glowing axe, [dick bulge], outside, dry hills, moonlight, photo fantasy style, [anime], [cartoon] Only 16 out of that batch of 1000. [dick bulge] has been removed and another 1000 started. I’m losing my judgement on how much is tooContinue reading “Prompt Skillz – Second Results”

Prompt Skillz – I have them not

Since I’m generating another 1000 potential cover pictures, I thought I’d play with the prompt. The last one: orange eyes, two distinct people (large black wolf:1.1) AND (muscular man:1.1) jeans, [dick bulge], tight white t-shirt, boots, axe, outside, dry hills, moonlight, fantasy style, low angle It’s very important to put “dick bulge” in brackets, whichContinue reading “Prompt Skillz – I have them not”

Totally Stealing This

The week after the meeting had actually gone incredibly well. What a way to start a chapter! Bam! A week has passed. I hate both documenting every day and blithely jumping forward. That’s a bit of a conundrum. Right now, I’ve got 39 days in 26 chapters, which is pretty much every day. A lot,Continue reading “Totally Stealing This”

Chapter 19 Has Fallen Before Me

Finally. What used to be the problematic Chapter 18 is now chapters 18, 19, and 20 – and they are all done. 21 and 22 were mostly done, already. A new chapter 23 got injected. It’s not done. Looking up the link, that took almost four months. Tempus has fugitted. I’m not in any particularContinue reading “Chapter 19 Has Fallen Before Me”

Yeah, No Quests

Another book with System quests (called “tasks” here). I do not like them. They are too directly manipulative or too trivial. Our intrepid hero (from Proving Grounds: Annals of the Runeguard Book 1) is being targeted by a group of thieves. After some escalation, they kill the blacksmith (Gorman) making him armor and steal it.Continue reading “Yeah, No Quests”

My Competition 4

This one is aspirational. Wormhole Mana is good (at least book one; I just started book two). In no particular order… It’s tight third person. There are internal monologues in first person of the character monologuing. It’s all very obvious. No weird point-of-view changes. There is incremental “what’s going on?” as the magic system isContinue reading “My Competition 4”