Way With Worlds

9/4/2017

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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?

So what have I done the last week?

  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet”:Chapter 6 is out.  Chapter 7 is being written and is a probably about 2/5 done already – big revelations here when the characters look back on history – and character development as one has to ask just what his goddess is up to.
  • Way With Worlds Minibook #4: I thought I’d take a break.  I didn’t – the cover is done and I edited it.  So I may be ahead of the game.
  • Art: Did more practice cover art that’s now on my tumblr.  This’ll be good because if my fiction takes off, I may do short stories as well and this practice should let me do quality covers.
  • General: Mostly crashed and saw my girlfriend.

What am I going to do this week:

  • Way With Worlds Minibook #4: I will probably format this, as weekend after next is busy.  But I can probably let it slide.
  • “A Bridge To The Quiet Planet:” Pretty much keeping at it.  I may finish Chapter 7 but am not sure.
  • Other: Got a lot of club meetings this week including a writer’s group.

Challenges:

  • Had a bad allergy attack last week and it wore me down.  Though I was productive (hey, what else was I going to do?) I’m keeping an eye on it based on previous experience.

– Steve

Steve’s Update 8/28/2017

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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