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Xyxyx (and other) updates
« on: May 20, 2012, 09:23:47 PM »
Updates on my Kindle series and other projects.

Feel free to promote your own stories/characters here, as well.  ;D
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #1 on: May 20, 2012, 09:53:54 PM »
Sorry about the mistake, Alablast. I didn't mean to put this in the Bar.

On another note, I will admit to this thread being semi self-serving, as a couple of you have read a bit of the story I put up on Kindle and I want to hear some opinions.

However, I do mean it when I say I wish for others to discuss specifics of their own stories, as well. It's always good to get opinions from people who share at least some common interest with yourself,  :) even if they sometimes disagree.  ::) All critiques are opinions and any author is free to disregard any opinion at any time  :P
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #2 on: May 20, 2012, 10:09:55 PM »
Oh, I'm sitting patiently for the next instalment.  :)
To say it was right up my street is an understatement. A little bit Douglas Adams but, as I have come to recognise, the snark was all your own.
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #3 on: May 20, 2012, 10:35:02 PM »
Volume 2 will be free for 5 days starting tomorrow, and Volume 3, Part 7 (upcoming shortly) has a specific reference to DA's work. You'll know it when you see it.  ;)

This started as a silly idea that came to me in 2004 and just grew from there. I'm not sure how long I can keep the pace up, but I'mm certainly willing to try.

Shaking the last toast crumbs and bacon bits off of Volume 3 before posting and working on Volume 4 now
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« Reply #4 on: May 20, 2012, 10:36:18 PM »
I shall wait with bated breath.  ;D
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #5 on: May 20, 2012, 10:46:16 PM »
This was never meant as a dig at religion, (despite the chapter titles) but more a way to get my silly sense of humor on paper (so to speak) and a way to shamelessly put modern day terms, sayings and references in a fantasy setting that didn't have monsters, werewolves, vampires etc.  8)
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #6 on: May 20, 2012, 11:14:30 PM »
I liked the way you used the narrator, it was fun.
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #7 on: May 20, 2012, 11:26:26 PM »
There will be more of that in other volumes. I don't do it very often (almost never) during dialog scenes. That mostly happens in the middle of describing something, or, in Part 5, specifically not describing something  :o  (you'll see what I mean tomorrow)
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« Reply #8 on: May 21, 2012, 08:10:44 PM »
Indeed I will.
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #9 on: May 21, 2012, 10:41:52 PM »
I've got more and more bits of the original story intruding on my "fanfic training exercise", which is just fine with me.  I suspect the collection of notecards that's growing in Scrivener are reaching that critical mass when "writing" starts whether you're done with the current project or not.

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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #10 on: May 21, 2012, 11:39:18 PM »
Hope you post some bits of it when you feel like it.
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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2012, 12:47:43 AM »
Volume 3 should be up on Kindle in a few hours. When it is, I will be setting up the free promotion for this weekend (saturday & sunday). I'm saving a few of this volume's promotion days for a later date, unlike the first two, which I used up all at once. (Doh!  >:( )

For those interested, Volume 2 is still available for free until friday. At Amazon Books search for 'The Book of Xyxyx'.  :)

Sorry, but Volume 1's promotion ran out last week.  :-[
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« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2012, 11:02:13 AM »
Volume 3's promotion is set. It will be free saturday & sunday.

Part 6 introduces Grandmama and sets the tone for her relationship with Sssss, although she never knows who Sssss is or that she is his 'mortal enemy'.

Part 7 is further adventures of Grandmama.
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« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2012, 06:44:49 PM »
You are feeding my addiction.

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Re: Discuss your storyline/plotline/characters
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2012, 10:38:28 PM »
That was the plan.

Mwa . . . mwahaha . . . mwahahahahaha!
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