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I miss my 19" NEC super-CRT, but I have to say having a widescreen is also useful. The LED is a lot brighter... Possible spoilers ahead!
I read and skimmed through this thread. As a fellow author it was pretty exciting. Seeing the words tick up gave me a thrill ( author porn! Lol...). Anyway, it was interesting to see your process. My process is still very non-standard in a lot of ways and I am still deciding if that helps me or not To decide that, I have to try a few more methods and compare. I will be keeping an eye on the thread and others to get ideas on different ways to work,
To be fair, this isn't my pulp-speed work. I've been doing a few side projects (like this forum) for a few months. Feel free to start your own WIP thread. Helps with accountability! ETA: Thanks for the feedback.
Just finished the first part of the Tower a few minutes ago. Good job, Paul! I have spotted a few copy paste errors, but altogether the editing quality is excellent, I was wondering if you have someone doing this, or if you self edit... All in all, curious about the second part, I'd like to see where you take this. I like the whole D&D vibe, and Magi Iyontoo is a great character, even though I can't really wrap my mind around who he might be based on..
Haha! You're one of the FEW people to get his name. Thanks for reading! I self-edit. The first went out as only a second draft to test the waters in this genre. Readers are even harsher than in romance! Heh. I'm spending more time on Book 2 (Human) to make it shine. Anything you really enjoyed or hated in book 1? I've got the next five books planned out in the main series with an idea where the rest will go (12 books). After that, if the series is popular enough, I've had thoughts of opening the universe to other writers. In total, there could be (at least) 144 books with 12 portals on each of the 12 levels of the tower. Ugh. I can't wait to get this next one out...but I go back to polishing word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and so on... Thanks again!
Posted first chapter up to RRL...Gonna run the whole thing through there to get some feedback before finishing up and sending to Amazon. Should be live in 24 to 48 hours...