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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #200 - Aug 30^th, 2012 at 1:51am	Print Post
	Still plugging away. I'm almost halfway through the manuscript and I've "lost" another page. I suspect that the final count will be around 850 pages.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #201 - Aug 30^th, 2012 at 6:17pm	Print Post
	Working on artwork for the "cover" of Book 1 has been pushed to the top of my To Do list. DAW took a pass and I've had it with the whole "traditional" process.


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Veridian Etoile God Member Offline Posts: 14993 Location: Writing La La Land Joined: Apr 11^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #202 - Aug 30^th, 2012 at 6:28pm	Print Post
	DRATTERS. At least you have a backup idea... Let me know when you're ready to roll with that and I'll get thing rolling on my end too.

	We creative types have to create in order to feel ALIVE... That's why I write. Without my writing, I would not be living, only existing. ~Me~ Music is essential to life. ~Me~ I'm sunny natured with a side of EVIL...
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #203 - Aug 31^st, 2012 at 1:00am	Print Post
	I will, VE. I've got a lot of reading to do to be sure that I understand everything. Aside from that, I need to get the "book cover" designed. I'm working on the art now. Fortunately, I came up with an idea that I can execute with my limited artistic skills.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #204 - Aug 31^st, 2012 at 2:49am	Print Post
	I've made a "fresh" Appleworks to Pages conversion and I'm going through and correcting the formatting errors. After than, I'll go through it with a fine toothed comb taking one last look to find any errors. Work on Book 3 has stopped for the moment.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #205 - Sep 2^nd, 2012 at 4:56am	Print Post
	It looks like Book 1 is going to come in at around 362 pages which is a nice length. Progress on the "cover" for the ebook is slow. Every time I start to work on it, the Queen parks her regal self right in the middle of things and refuses to budge.... Post # 25,852


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #206 - Sep 5^th, 2012 at 10:41pm	Print Post
	I've made some progress on the "cover" this afternoon. One design element is in place but the second one just isn't working so I'm having to rethink that part of the design. On the "text" front, I've been working on Chapter 8 as weather permited and I think I have it fleshed out to my satisfaction. Some things just needed more detail and I've managed to do that without getting excessively wordy. So now, on to Chapter 9!


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #207 - Sep 6^th, 2012 at 11:59pm	Print Post
	I made it through Chapter 10 today -- it's shorter than most of them -- and I have 120 pages to go. I've got about an hour and a half before I start dinner and I'm going to see how much I can get done.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #208 - Sep 15^th, 2012 at 12:25am	Print Post
	Questions about Book 4 are starting to pop into my head. That makes me think that Book 4 "Desolation and War" will be my next project. Book 1 is printed out and I'll be proofing it this weekend. I need to hit an office supply store for a mailing box. The local Walmart no longer carries them although if I wanted an ordinary brown cardboard shipping box, I'd be in luck. No Walmart, I need a "document" box and I'll get it at Staples or Office Max!


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #209 - Sep 20^th, 2012 at 2:39am	Print Post
	Still proofing on Book 1. It's slow going because a.) I don't want to miss anything and b.) my eyes really don't like reading for more than an hour or so at a time before I have to rest them. I probably need a new prescription but that will have to wait for a while so I'll just muddle along until I get this proofreading done.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #210 - Oct 5^th, 2012 at 5:20am	Print Post
	Manuscript preparation for epublishing Book 1 is pretty much done. I can't think of anything else to do or add. All that's left is the "cover art" which I'm hoping to have done by the middle of next week, provided that real life doesn't throw me any more curve balls. Consequently, I started going over Book 2 tonight. I pulled out a small section that worked when I wrote it but no longer does and replaced it with something else. The whole section will need polishing to make sure the narrative moves along smoothly but what I want is there so the tweaks will be minor. I'm also working on an "insert" that features Our Heroine's brother and gives some hints about his life and... ahem.... training. That will take some thought and I don't know yet how long it will be. Book 2 is a bit shorter than Book 1 in terms of page count so I can add some without it becoming bloated. I'm still working on fixing formatting errors in Book 3 which gives me the chance to spot areas that might need more work. All in all, things are going well and ideas for Book 4 are beginning to make themselves known. It's all good.
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #211 - Oct 8^th, 2012 at 10:15pm	Print Post
	Well, I've added a page and a half to Book 2. I decided that Our Heroine's brother needed some bedroom action. Not that he's been celibate, mind you, it has just been happening "off stage" and I thought that wasn't quite fair. So, I worked up a little scene with him and the opportunistic female who was throwing herself at him at this point in the story.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #212 - Oct 9^th, 2012 at 3:09am	Print Post
	I've been tweaking Book 2 tonight -- adding bits and pieces here and there. My eyes have been taking exception to staring at the monitor so I'm considering printing it out for proofing.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #213 - Oct 9^th, 2012 at 4:41pm	Print Post
	The art is photographed and now needs to be downloaded. There are 250 shots on the camera. This could take a while...


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #214 - Oct 10^th, 2012 at 6:56pm	Print Post
	Yesterday was very productive in that we got the cover for Book 1 done and several chapters of Book 3 were checked for formatting errors. Tonight, after 2 am, I'll download the pre-publishing/preview program from Amazon that I need to read the book before I 'publish' it, the idea being that I find any mistakes before the public does. The download is 125 MB which is half of our download allowance, so I'll be burning the 2 am oil tonight. If things EVER settle down around here, I'll get my publishing account set up and see what I can do before I need to "preview". If everything goes well, Book 1 "could" be available for purchase by the weekend...


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #215 - Feb 23^rd, 2013 at 2:51am	Print Post
	I'm slogging through the proofreading on Book 2 and I have about 150 pages left to do. The eyes are NOT cooperating but I don't want to wait until I get new glasses to finish it 'cause I don't know exactly when that will be and I want to get the story out there.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #216 - Feb 28^th, 2013 at 5:42am	Print Post
	I finished the proofreading on 2 tonight. Tomorrow I will work singlemindedly on correcting the copy. My goal is to "publish" on Monday, March 4th. Then I'll start getting Book 3 into shape. I want to publish it on May 5th. I'm thinking that the image I want for the cover of Book 3 might not be doable right now so I'm thinking of alternatives. Fortunately, Book 3 is, I think, in pretty good shape.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #217 - Mar 15^th, 2013 at 3:38am	Print Post
	Book 2 went up on schedule and I've been working on Book 3 since then. I finished the final "tweak" tonight and I'll start printing the hardcopy tomorrow. It's 456 pages so I doubt that I'll get it done tomorrow but I'll print what I can and start proofing. I still intend to publish 3 on May 5th.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #218 - Mar 17^th, 2013 at 3:20am	Print Post
	I'm feeling a little lost right now. I laid down the first words of Keyholder's Castle on July 7, 2005. I started the job of making the "source documents" into novels in early October, 2007 and I've been working on them pretty much constantly ever since. The last book of the three, "Destinies" is for all intents and purposes, finished. All that's left is proofreading and epublishing. Eight years since I first started and nearly 6 of steady, non-stop writing on the novels. Now, for the first time in eight years, I have nothing "Castle" related to do and it feels weird. I'm going to attempt to take a short break but it WILL be short because the itch to find out what happens next is strong and the only way I "will" find out what happens next is to write it.


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Veridian Etoile God Member Offline Posts: 14993 Location: Writing La La Land Joined: Apr 11^th, 2011 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #219 - Mar 17^th, 2013 at 2:34pm	Print Post
	!!!!! You WILL get back into it, Penth... When the time is right to start writing again, you'll know. Tons of !!!!!!

	We creative types have to create in order to feel ALIVE... That's why I write. Without my writing, I would not be living, only existing. ~Me~ Music is essential to life. ~Me~ I'm sunny natured with a side of EVIL...
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #220 - Mar 21^st, 2013 at 1:46am	Print Post
	I'm a glutton for punishment. I just made a form for a timeline for Books 3 (which is finished), Book 4 AND Book 5! It's 80 pages long and all that I have on it so far it the dates, one line (so far) for each day. I'll fill in the dates for Book 3 first, holidays and "births" (hehehehe) and the universal holidays. THEN I'll start figuring out when the "stuff" hits the fan in Book 4.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #221 - Mar 21^st, 2013 at 7:05pm	Print Post
	I'm starting to figure out what happens in Book 4 and a rough idea of when things happen. One thing for certain, Our Hero hasn't learned his lesson when it comes to double dealing, backstabbing, skanky females. sigh Our Heroine has the patience of a saint.... up to a point. After that point, there will be blood, lots of it and the readers will be cheering like fans at the NCAA championships when Our Heroine says "ENOUGH!" and gets out her sword....


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #222 - Apr 5^th, 2013 at 6:35pm	Print Post
	I'm thinking of modifying the castle design, specifically the dimensions, the number of floors and perhaps some minor additions that will make life a bit easier for the people "living" there, especially in the winter! I'll work on that project while I'm figuring out what happens in Book 4. I figure that I'll need the castle layout and the continental maps at some point. The castle's floor plan and at least part of the land maps for inclusion in Book 4 and eventually, the Complete Guide to Samgara the publication of which is a ways off in the future!
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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #223 - Apr 27^th, 2013 at 1:43am	Print Post
	I'm going to make one more pass through Book 3 this weekend to be sure I have all the corrections made and then bright and (reasonably!) early on May 5, 2013 I'll get on Amazon and start the publishing process. Then, the first story arc of Keyholder's Castle will be complete and available to public. I expect my writing skills to improve -- "write and learn" after all! -- but I don't think that I'll ever write a story that will be dearer to my heart than this one. This one's for you, DK, wherever you are. I couldn't have done it without you.


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Penthesilea Forum Administrator Offline Warrior Queen, DarkLady, Phoenix, Ghostbuster Posts: 47422 Location: The Castle..... Joined: Jun 21^st, 2006 Gender:	Re: Welcome to the Writing Life! Reply #224 - Apr 28^th, 2013 at 9:51pm	Print Post
	There comes a time when you have to stop tinkering and surrender your work to the world. And I've reached that point. I've done all the proofing, correcting and tweaking that I can do. Anything more would be "overworking" the dough. So, sometime this week, I'll assemble my "publishing file." It will consist of the final draft of Book 3 in Pages, the cover illustration and the final draft exported to Microsoft Word and by this time next Sunday (May 5th) Book 3 should be well along in the publishing process and might even be available for purchase.


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