Category: Rambling
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So AJ is retooling her platform again. I mentioned that yesterday. It’s not anything anyone would really notice, but AJ switched from Engage Bay to MailerLite for her email system. Mostly because that’s what they use at work, and it’s easier to use the same tools. But AJ learned all about edge computing through work…
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AJ’s working on a series of websites. She updated her personal site, and now she’s working on her author platform site again. This isn’t a new bundle of joy per say, but AJ’s retooling it so that it fits better with her current stack of things. I have no idea what any of that means…
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AJ’s trying out lots of new things and I’m disappointed in the results. So I’m coming back to at least posting once a day for the week. We might give ourselves some leeway on the weekends. No worrying about posts then so maybe AJ can keep this going — all part of the morning routine…
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AJ hit 50K on the next book in the series. The Call of the Dragon is book 1. And is currently in Edit phase. Book 2 is called The Malum Convergence and is in the writing phase — about half way done. Today I’m writing for two reasons. Mostly because I want to touch Alex.…
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Sorry I’ve been awol. AJ’s been focusing on editing this week. And for the days I’ve missed. It’s not that I have nothing to say, just AJ got busy and forgot. Thus the focused bits lol. But today AJ received an email from WordPress that has a new monthly word prompt in it. They maybe…
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So yesterday I made a quip about AJ making a lame book cover. It’s hardly lame. It isn’t the one we’ll use in the end, but we really like the look. For the final look AJ will probably a rendition of me on the cover and add some magic. But for NaNo it’s really cool.…
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So it’s nearly April. Camp NaNoWriMo April is right around the corner. AJ has to plot out the next story in the book. I know I’ve discussed a bit about it before. But it’s an all new book. But not an all new concept. We won’t be pulling work from the previous stuff. The outline…
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There was no editing factory today. It’s the Friday after a Grey’s Anatomy cross-over event with Station 19 where AJ had to watch Station 19 cause yeah someone went over a cliff in the last Grey’s episode and in Station 19 they saved him — had to watch that. It’s not always something AJ has…
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Sorry. No idea how to use today’s word — football. I could beat it like a dead horse. More cliches? No? Alright. AJ hasn’t edited since Monday, hopefully we’ll take a crack at it here in a bit. AJ’s playing insanity mode on ME 2 and keeps dying so is probably on a break till…
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Editing is boring. It’s good that it’s getting done but it can be so boring. I want to move on to book two. AJ says we have more planning to do. But we can’t do that if you are play Mass Effect! There is a disturbance in the force of my will power. I’m failing…
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Well I fell of that wagon. Totally been slacking on my posts. Maybe this week will be better. And I won’t be a little tease. Nah, actually that’s probably a lie. Though Alex might get a bit upset. AJ finished the read through edit. We are now going through the show don’t tell words trying…
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AJs PDF has a whole day outta order. It’s a good thing it was easy to recognize. Dates make things so much easier to determine at a glance. Hopefully none of the chapters are outta order. So there are now pages added to an outline that aughta help with finding the chapter we have to…
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I mentioned AJ was done with the rewriting of book 1. We are reading through it and making notes on it. You’d think we had a deadline with the urgency in which we have been handling this read through. Though to be fair AJ says it’s an easy read. Not like say the Lord of…
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Last night AJ wrote the last bits of The Call of the Dragon. On to full edits. With red ink too. The book is shorter than the original by almost 90K words. The biggest reason being we took one chuck out completely as it didn’t lend to the story at all. And because of the…
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Only 4 more scenes to go. Or so. Only 4 left in the outlined bits. There might be a few more or a few less no one can know for sure. Until it’s done. OMG… it’s almost done. I’m not even going to fake the words for The Daily Spur or or FOWC I’ll just…
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AJ’s got some foreshadowing going on right now. I love the response this invokes in me. Important information was just alluded to. Information I’ll learn in a scene or two but also so much more I won’t know. So love it. And what’s more is that it’s staring me in the face. And I won’t…
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We will be at the end of The Call of a the Dragon in a snap. The titular scene is coming up with in the next scene or two. I don’t know what I’m going to be able to share in the next phase of things, as AJ will need to do a read through…
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So AJ shared the prologue with you. Yesterday she decided to get a better grip on the story and start off with Chapter 1 instead. But we didn’t want to lose those bits and bobs of information that help a reader understand that there is MORE at stake than just my life here. That it’s…
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AJ forgot to post for Sunday. We went looking and got side tracked. So sorry. AJ had a bad night so I’m not going to blow my horn for too long. (sad I know) Let’s just say anxiety kept her up despite knowing that there was nothing more she could do at the hour. Anxiety…
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I promised to have some of Abbie Emmon’s Misconception today. And we have the single sentences for the overall arc of the first 4 books and the truth and lie of book 1. We don’t want to work on book 2 until we hit book two so we’ll make this a series as we go…
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I broke my streak! I didn’t post yesterday. I’m such a bad little worker bee. AJ’s busy writing, and working on releasing aj-hunter.com (it just says coming soon) AJ’s alpha reader made a perfect suggestion and we are running with it. It’s absolutely perfect for Alex’s character. Perfect! We are hunting a hacker and AJ…
The Mind of Nox 