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I do look forward to this release. I'll have to reread the other chapters, but I have a week or 2 before the reviewers get it back to you.

Eric Storm wrote:

Update for June 21, 2024:

Agent of Change, Chapter 29, is finished, and with the reviewers.

Eric Storm

You can draw your conclusion by the fact that the symbiont told him he needed to impregnate "one woman a month".  The symbionts can certainly do math, so they're not going to establish a schedule that wouldn't result in them having hosts in time.  They would most likely have figured out the timetable such that they have enough viable hosts left on their current planet to meet demand until the Earth hosts are available in sufficiently high numbers.

Eric Storm

Great chapter, thanks!

Update for July 6, 2024:

As of today, I have written over 100,000 words this year.

Eric Storm

darthel0101 wrote:

Thank you for making them available to us to enjoy.

Um... truth be told, about half of them, I haven't. 

Although I guess I can announce that, thanks to a shift in my intentions for the story, Misfits will start being posted here to the site sometime in the near future.  I don't have a timeline, as it needs to be reformatted before I can post it as a normal story.  It was originally intended as a CYOA book, but I realized that I was never going to finish a project that massive.  (Done the way I'd envisioned, the book would contain as many words as I've written in my entire career so far.) 

It's still going to be part of a special project of sorts, but I'll talk more about that when the book starts being released.

Misfits is currently over 250,000 words long, and is... I'd say a little more than halfway finished at the moment, maybe 60%.

Eric Storm

Update for August 9, 2024:

Agent of Change, Chapter 30, has been finished, and is with the reviewers.

I expect to start releasing Misfits, a chapter at a time, within the next couple months.  Right now, I'm struggling with too many issues to worry about it.

Hey, you know all those donations you guys have given me over the last several years?  Yeah, they're all about to go bye-bye.  While we didn't get any super-serious weather out of Tropical Storm Debby, we got enough wind and rain for me to wind up with a whole bunch of leaks in my bedroom.  Turns out that my roof is completely shot at this point, and I will be spending a vast chunk of your donations to replace it.  Have I said thank you for the donations recently?  Because without them, I haven't a clue how I'd have dealt with the roof.

Of course, before that, your donations replaced my 22-year-old washer and dryer, because my dryer stopped working (and it made little sense to just wait for the washer to do the same).  I now have newer (not new) appliances in my laundry room... and I'm still trying to figure out why my clothes need a night light while tumbling dry...

Unfortunately, I still have to worry about repairing the bathroom, which has deteriorating walls due to moisture infiltration, but that hasn't become an emergency yet, so... about those donations...


On a different note, I am fighting with some kind of discomfort/pain in my neck, which makes it hard to concentrate on things like writing.  Between that, and the stress of dealing with the house, my writing has significantly slowed.  My doctor thinks the neck problem is caused by the problem in my shoulder... but she also thinks that "calcific tendonitis" is the same thing as arthritis (it isn't), so I'm not sure how much stock I put in her opinion.

Anyway, knowing my reviewers, you should have AC30 to read in late August.  Not necessarily THIS August, mind you, but...

Eric Storm

You do not use a "handyman" to replace a roof.  You used a licensed contractor.  For one thing, there's no way to get the extra discounts from my insurance company without a licensed contractor.  For another, I don't think anyone other than a contractor could pull the permits.  And YES, in this city, you pull permits if you don't want $500 fines added to the cost of your roof.

Eric Storm

My apologies. I know code in Florida restricts so much for specific reasons and I understand why. I’ve done several roof installs and repairs and give all my roof repairs a 5 year warranty if something goes wrong that belongs to my work and I have never had a problem. So I had presumed some other handyman could do it.

Also, a patch is MUCH easier than full replacement. I’ll assume you probably have shingles or tile which repairs are easy for those unless you have to repair everything under as well.

Update for August 25, 2024:

Agent of Change, Chapter 30, has been posted to PRM.
Agent of Change, Chapter 24, has been made public.

The cast list pages have also been updated to reflect the newly available chapters.

Eric Storm

Update for September 16, 2024:

I actually wrote something for the first time since the end of August.

I've been very stressed lately.  When Tropical Storm Debby came through, my old and decrepit roof said, "It's time to retire."  So I had to deal with finding out what that was going to cost, hoping that major storms didn't come through before it got done... and then dealing with the horrendous noise of having the old roof removed.  As I said previously, your donations have been put to good use, keeping a roof over my head, quite literally.

Well, with all that going on, it was very hard to feel any impetus to write.  I've also been dealing with depression of late, and that pretty much saps all interest in anything creative, so...

Here's to hoping that the difficulties are easing off for a while, so I can get some work done.

Eric Storm

Update for October 1, 2024:

Misfits, Chapter 1: Endings has been posted to PRM.  Yes, I know I said I'd post it around the middle of September, but.... roof, and hurricane... wasn't really thinking about website shit too much.

I will try to continue to post one chapter of Misfits every month until I run out of them (or the story finishes, whichever comes first.)

Eric Storm

Augur wrote:

How did Milton treat you Eric? Hope you are safe.

Check here for the aftermath

https://www.wolfpub.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=2451

Eric Storm wrote:

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I anticipate posting the chapter on November 1st.  Which year is dependent upon my reviewers.
Eric Storm