C. W. March

Revised Augur B2 Chapters 14

Finished my revision of Chapter 14. From here, I need to do what I think will basically just be a read-through of Chapters 15-17, because I wrote those after I figured out the change I wanted to make to Tzila's storyline. I need to do a second pass through chapter 18, finish the revisions to chapter 19, then the epilogue and I'm done.

At this rate, I'll get through that in the next 4-5 da...

Augur B2 Chapters 12 & 13

Finished the new version of Chapter 12 and did some revisions on Chapter 13. At this point I've reconnected the threads of Tzila's new take by connecting the early revisions with the later re-writes. I still need to go through and make sure Chapter 14+ still fit, but since I wrote those with the current conflict in mind I don't think I'll need to make too many changes. Chapter 13 actually went ...

Re-editing Chapter 11

I was working through the end of the dinner party and Tzila's forced confession and the scene wasn't sitting quite right with me, so I spent some time figuring out why. There's an element of Tzila's character that I've been working on softening, but I think I was doing it a little too much. I'm going back now and adding a little more of her resentment towards Jack, specifically, but I want to ...

Augur B2 Chapters 11 & 12

I finished my revised version of Chapter 11, and am now working through a complete re-write of 12. I'm keeping the main story beats the same, but am trying to change the mood some - I want to soften and build Tzila's character a little more before the breaking, and I want to make the post-Janssens mood lighter again. The original take on Tzila's character kinda dragged the mood down until the v...

Augur Book 2 Editing - Chapters 9 and 10

I got through some substantial updates on chapters 9 and 10. I've uploaded those as standalone chapters, but also updated the Current Status document. If you're reading it currently there's a section in chapter 21 that will look weird - I'm probably going to rewrite the middle of that chapter and there's an in-progress chunk that I'll eventually re-do.

Back and Editing!

Back after a nice few days rest and back to editing. Things are going much faster and smoother after a letting my mind wander, I expect to make good progress with B2 for the next few days.

Short Break

I'm starting to burn out doing editing, so I'm going to take a short break from that for a few days. I may do some random short creative pieces, but probably not anything major.

I have updated the Augur Book 2 Current State with the latest version. There have been several updates across chapters, with Chapter 9 featuring the most changes, but I also updated Stacy's interactions pos...

Augur Update

Still working on editing - I'm up to the right with Janssens in the Trail of Tears state park. I have completed any current planned updates to Tzila's storyline by rewriting the early sections of the final chapter.

Augur Blood and Bargains Current State

This is the current state of Augur Book 2, Blood and Bargains. I plan to update this post rather than make a new one every time I re-upload the manuscript, which will probably happen a few more times over the next week or two.

I'm still going through editing and revisions, and will hand it off to my editor for a final pass prior to preparing it for publication, but it is getting much, muc...

Augur Book 2, New Chapter 20

New draft of chapter 20, wrapping up Tzila's new storyline. Cindy and Rose get silly and sexy, and Jack finally claims his Jinn properly.

Next up is doing a little re-writing of the start of the last chapter of the book proper, then I'm going to get back to my editing and revision pass (which I've done up to chapter 8, so far). Revising goes faster than writing does, so I think I'm on tra...

New Draft Upload Style poll

Update poll for full members after I found the option I'd been looking for in Scrivener:

I'm trying to figure out the best way to share new content as I revise and edit.

Which do you prefer?

• Wait until I have an entire chapter ready to upload, then upload one chapter at a time

• Upload as soon as I write/edit a new scene, but include the entire chapter in ...

  2024-10-20 17:21:18 +0000 UTC View Post

Augur Book 2 - New Chapter 19

New completed chapter 19, from Tzila's breaking through some of her integration into the household.

From here, I should be able to more readily update what I already have written, rather than creating new stuff.

I hope.

Draft Upload Style

Quick poll for full members:

I'm trying to figure out the best way to share new content as I revise and edit.

Do you prefer:

• What I've done with the last two Tzila chapters, and upload just the specific new scene segments as they're written/edited

• What I did with Master of One, where I export the whole document each time so you can see all the changes, a...

  2024-10-19 17:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post

Tzila - Intro to Slutting

Once again, a very rough draft chapter, but the good thing about this style of initial content is that I can crank out text much more quickly (which is exactly why I'm trying it out.)

I'll need to spend more time editing them before they're ready than I would if I kept up my original edit-and-revise-as-I-go style, but probably not as much time total when you combine the two.

This sc...

Tzila's Breaking

I've written a couple different rough drafts for the next scene in Tzila's breaking, but I think I finally settled on a basic format for it that I like.

This is, much like the end of the last chapter, a very rough draft - no editing, misspellings, etc, but the core flow of the scene is probably the one I'll go with.

More of chapter 19 yet to rewrite and revise, but I'll get to that ...

Augur Book 2, new Chapter 18

This chapter wound up being more heavily revised than I expected. If you read through my first draft of it, you'll see some similarities, but the pacing of this one is pretty different.

I also tried something new with the very final section. What's included here is a very rough draft, where as much as possible I just said what I was trying to get across. I'll go back over the next day or ...

Augur B2 Revisions

I'm about 1/3rd of the way through my revision draft of book 2, and am making some progress with the Tzila re-writes. I'm having to change more than I thought I would, mostly because the tone doesn't feel quite right, so it's going a little slower than I expected, but progress is progress.

Augur Book 2, Chapter 17

Ok, finished the last two scenes in chapter 17. I'm going to have to do some revisions to the next few chapters to make sure the mood and flow of Tzila's breaking still fits and makes sense, but the broad strokes of events shouldn't change too much. The basic principle is the same - Jack is going to force Tzila into increasingly sexual and degrading positions, while walking her through realizin...

Augur B2 Chapter 17 early draft

I still have one or two sections to write, but this is a good chunk of the new chapter 17. I'll see if I can get the rest knocked out either tomorrow during the day or Thursday, but figured I'd share what I had so far.

Yet more B2 progress

I'm continuing to write the new chapter 17 as well as going through with my editing pass. The image in the post is a snip of Scrivener, the tool that I'm trying out for this process. You can see that while I am actually making pretty good progress, I probably still have at least a week to go to get through everything. The good news is that I feel like this second round of drafts is well needed,...

More Augur B2 Work

I'm getting some good progress done on a new chapter 17 - I'm about 4.5k words in and will guess the chapter will come out at somewhere around 10k words total.

Part of that is the chapter is me taking the time to do something I've wanted to do for a while - I've always felt like Rose was a character I wasn't taking advantage of as often as I should - she's fun to have around, but I didn't...

Switching back to Augur Book 2

I have started to run out of momentum on Master of One, so I switched back to book 2 and am working on wrapping up the expansion of Tzila's storyline (specifically, re-writing the intro to what is now chapter 17, where Jack goes in and start forcing Tzila to admit that she's choosing everything.)

I've also started going through and doing some editing of the older chapters to make their fo...

Master of One - Chapters 10-13

I got a good amount of writing done, though the chapters are still relatively short. Daniel's relationship with Tif is starting to heat up, we got some action scene, and we got a lot of worldbuilding done, though, so it feels like the pace might be relatively close to what I want. I'm trying to avoid rushing things, but Daniel's voice is also somewhat straighter and more direct than Jack's and ...

Master of One - Chapters 9 and 10

First draft of the end of Chapter 9 and the start of Chapter 10.

Chapter 10 marks something of a turning point in the story - the real action is starting, and Daniel gets his first real taste of both how his class actually works, and why Aura Access is an even more powerful perk than he initially realized.

I'll probably get some more writing done tonight - I actually have a quiet ev...

Master of One - Chapters 8 and 9

I made a good amount of progress, and have finished a first draft of chapter 8 and half of chapter 9.

The chapters of Master of One are shorter than Augur, though I expect they'll get longer as we get deeper into the action. My best guess is that the first book will wind up being somewhere between 60k and 80k words (compared to Augur's 130k). I haven't plotted out the entire story that I ...

Master of One - Chapter 7

I finally caught up on my Master of One re-writes. There are some major updates to chapter 6 (the second fight) and I have finally written a first draft of the end of chapter 7.

Part of the delay was that while I was going back and revising, I was also fleshing out characters and worldbuilding to make sure I knew what I was talking about. We meet several people who are going to be importa...

Master of One Chapter 5 rewrite

I am almost caught up on my MoO rewrites, with only Chapter 6 (and the start of Chapter 7) to go!

While I'm working on these, I'm also expanding out worldbuilding and fleshing out several characters. I have plotted out the basic framework of scenes for the rest of Master of One book 1, so once I'm done with the rewrite I should be good to just keep writing until I need to take a break (at...

Master of One Chapter 4 rewrite

Also a handful of changes to the first three chapters, but those are pretty sparse. About the only one of those worth calling out is that the fight with the bandits now starts with "Encounter: Bandits (3)" instead of just "Bandits (3)". The addition of that one word doesn't sound too significant, but part of the point of the whole setting is that everyone is being judged on how they act and rea...

Master of One - Chapter 3 rewrite

Ok, I know I said I probably wasn't going to get much writing done, but I finished my rewrite/update of Scene 3. It didn't require as much editing as the first few, as I think the tone was about right, but the voice needed to be tightened up.

Upload includes the first few chapters as well, but there are only a few words different from last night.

Master of One

I started doing a re-write of the first few chapters.

I like a lot of the worldbuilding that I have going for the world, but the tone of the protagonist didn't quite feel right.

Most of the action is the same, but I did make a handful of changes to the fights.

The more substantial change is the addition of a more solid introduction to the world including some absolute knowledg...