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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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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 8/15/2017

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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, so where am I?

Well this one is late –  man I have to be more careful.  Though Monday was a bit nuts.

So what have I done the last week?

  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet”: Chapter #5 is out, with cops, secrets, demons, and more.  Marigold, Scintilla, and Beacon find out more about Shalen, while Briar Lindel contemplates bad recruiting and living with a teammember with magic-potion-induced flatulence.
  • Way With Worlds Minibook: The edits are done, the cover is mostly done (I just have to go to the final photo).
  • General: I added some better error checking to the Sanctum so people get less annoying 404’s – apparently someone revived a bunch of REAL OLD links (try 3-7 years) somewhere.  My guess is a few sites went live again or links got copied over.

What am I going to do this week:

  • Way With Worlds Minibook #3: Finish the cover and get it publishing-ready!
  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet:” Going to take a break writing for a few days due to my schedule, but then back at it!
  • Generators: OK I didn’t release that new generator, let’s see if I can get it done.

Challenges:

  • The unexpected issues have damped down, so cross your fingers.

– Steve