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Rushing leads to scat … suffering. No, it’s better to make it smooth and take my time. I’ve been writing a bit slower than a chapter a week for a while, so it was bound to catch up to me. (I also need to work on my database some, so that’s time away from writing, though the database helps overall.) And, I want to get in some 3D modelling too. I still like my once-a-week goal, just with the caveat that it can slide, as necessary. (Decided on that caveat post-Jefferey-burnout.)

Divorce (after all, marriage is the #1 cause)

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First, chapter 7 isn’t going hot, it’ll have to be rewritten, which means a week delay from the usual schedule. First, thanks for the review, they help! (Okay, there’s more behind the spoiler guard which will spoil a bit of chapters 5 & 6).

epoxy

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hanging (Maybe I've been listening to too much of the Fallout 4 sound track, when that’s the first thing I think of with “tree”...)

Chapter 6, “Deep Cover” is now posted, enjoy! - DP

Naked

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Yep, I had that same lack of confidence, still do, to a degree. I was very shaky with that first chapter I had posted, very shaky on the nerves. While I’m better, still am.

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Hmm… I generally had good luck with LibreOffice, but then, I typically kept it to one file per chapter, so 50kwords is a bit much. Though, I’m on Gentoo Linux, and I’ve had an unstable build or two of it, so those unstable ones would crash. And anymore, I’m typically using a simple text editor using Latex as a post-processing.

I use the generators as a starting point because my mind doesn’t work well with blank sheets of paper, and the amount of time I fuss over it depends on the size of the character’s role. If I’m filling out a family tree, next to none. But if the character appears in the story with any appreciable role, I do spend time on them. The generators I deal with typically give lists, so it might be 50 names, and I’ll scan the list to see if any of them works, if not, I hit the “refresh” button. For characters with significant story time, I do try to make sure that the names are phonetically different, where possible, because names can mash together to the reader if you’ve got lots of “Jaimie” and “Jaden” and “Joe” and “Joey” and “Josephine” and “Jarred” and “Jefferey” and “Julian”, etc…. I know some people might dis on random generators, but to me, those are just suggestions, not like I’m saying “the next roll of the dice is...”, because it is my character I’m creating. And, as I work with characters, writing them, I’ll frequently change them anyway, adapting them to the circumstances, and how they write out on the story. (As I’m building a world, my DB is a couple of thousand characters, some more thoughtfully considered than others.)

Random name generators help out a lot. (With some selection for balance and having it sound right.)

You know, I kinda like the ocean wildlife, I’m not in the mood to poison those helpless creatures.

Morris was unrelated, a different gossip rumor simply because I don’t like the “I turned on the TV, and what just happened to be on….” type of thing.