Seventh Sanctum

Steve’s Update 8/28/2017

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(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr)

It’s my weekly Scrum style standup for my audience, so where am I?  Besides on time thank goodness.

So what have I done the last week?

  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet”: I hope to have Chapter 6 out this week.
  • Way With Worlds Minibook: The next book, on Food and Cuisine, is done!  Go get it at Amazon!
  • Seventh Sanctum: The new Fantasy Game Name generator is out!
  • Art: On top of all that, I’m doing my practice book covers – they’re now on my tumblr.
  • General: A few less social events this week – I almost welcome that.  Also planning for the next month!

What am I going to do this week:

  • Way With Worlds Minibook #4 I may start this week – but I may need a break.
  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet:” Pretty much keep at it.  I’ve set a pace for myself.
  • Other: I plan to enjoy the four-day weekend!  I do want to get some other work done.

Challenges:

  • Nothing really standing out right now – fortunately!

– Steve

Steve’s Update 8/21/2017

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(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com and Steve’s Tumblr)

It’s my weekly Scrum style standup for my audience, so where am I?

First of all, on time.  Sorry about my delays folks.

So what have I done the last week?

  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet”: Churning away, working on getting a good pace.  Right now we have a demon, spies, and Scintilla’s ability to smuggle some very deadly weapons between worlds.  Also sarcasm, because how do you react when someone in the most obviously Evil Cult Robes hands you a book.
  • Way With Worlds Minibook: The next book, on Food and Cuisine, is formatted and ready to drop!  So this weekend is queuing it up and getting marketing together.  Looking good so far – and my editor is really knocking it out of the park.
  • Seventh Sanctum: I did NOT get to the new generator as I had a few more bits of code change to put in to improve error reporting.  Anyway, that all looks pretty good.
  • Art: Wait, art?  Yep, I’m trying a side project to practice my graphic skills by designing fake book covers.  I might share them and what I learned doing them.
  • General: This was a social-heavy week – honestly I’m a bit burnt out from it.  Plus side, got to marathon season four of RWBY which is, of course, awesome.

What am I going to do this week:

  • Way With Worlds Minibook #3: Get it done and probably out.
  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet:” Keeping up my writing pace and finishing chapter 6 hopefully!
  • Generators: Really I want to release the damn generator.
  • Other: Lots of end-of-month cleanup here, so that may occupy me.

Challenges:

  • Worst thing was pushing myself socially – I need to take breaks AND take breaks from big social events.  It’s not easy to be honest.
  • I haven’t taken time to do my posts on writing – and am kind of not sure how I let that fade.  I think I queue up posts so early I sometimes don’t budget time if I don’t have something 2-3 weeks ahead to go.  I’ll need to think that over.

– Steve

Steve’s Update 7/10/2017

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(This column is posted at www.StevenSavage.com, www.SeventhSanctum.com, and Steve’s Tumblr)

It’s my weekly Scrum style standup for my audience – and I forgot last weeks with the holiday.  It got a bit crazy, but in a good way.  So let’s get back to it!

First of all goals for this sprint, July:

  • Publish Way With Worlds Minibook #2: This’ll be on Magic and Technology.
  • Write more of “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet:” I’m starting to pace myself by writing scenes, with so many scenes (8-9) roughly equalling a chapter.  My goal this month is to write about 18 scenes, or roughly two chapters (as of this status, I actually wrote about 8-10 as I got on a roll).
  • Lots of social stuff this month too – and next month.  Man at this rate I need a vacation from my relaxing . . .
  • I’m trying to do more fun stuff on my social media and Tumblr with memes and challenges.

So what have I done the last week?

  • Way With Worlds Minibook #1: Out, published, and selling!  Enjoy!
  • Way With Worlds Minibook #2: Just started editing this, and finished the cover!
  • Way With Worlds Minibook #6: Taking a break from this right now.  I’ve written a few too much of these.
  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet”: Chapters #1 and #2 are out, and #3 is almost finished.  I need pre-readers so feel free to volunteer!
  • Blogging: Just general blogging.  You’ve seen it already!
  • Other: Not much else to be blunt, lots of chores and catchup and a few other things.

What am I going to do this week:

  • Way With Worlds Minibook #2: I’m going to finish editing and get it ready for publications.
  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet:” Finish Chapter #3 and some more scenes.
  • Writing: More blog posts as usual!  I am debating putting my writing posts on Seventh Sanctum as well.
  • Send more Way With Worlds books to my editor.

Challenges:

  • Feeling a bit overloaded to be honest, and not sure why.  I’m going to keep an eye on my workload.  I also want to do more fun things and not overdo it – like my latest Overwatch Memes.  I also have an unfinished generator . . .

– Steve