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Progress Report 2024 Week 33

Last week and the upcoming week have severely testing my energy reserves. Two Real Life Family Events (RLFEs) struck this week — one planned, one spontaneous. I have another planned for this week, and that event will take all day. And that’s on Monday! On top of that, I got a reminder that even very […]

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Progress Report 2024 Week 30

I received the final beta reader report for The Sword of Sirius Book 2: Collapse Zone, and sometimes, feedback has implications beyond the text itself. I also have some new experience with Amazon ads, and it reinforced a suspicion I had. And, amazingly, I actually wrote some words this week! Let’s talk about the details […]

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Progress Report 2024 Week 29

One of my point of view characters decided to step up and take control of their narrative. That was great — mostly. Also, I had to work through a Real Life Family Event. Everyone’s fine; it was actually a leisure activity with my son. But did it impose a toll on my word count? Before […]

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Progress Report 2024 Week 28

I’m running a month-long experiment with Facebooks ads, partly to save all of the promo site slots for the release of The Sword of Sirius in a few months and partly as a sanity check. The results are, let’s say, interesting. Also, I received beta feedback for The Sword of Sirius Book 2: Collapse Zone […]