The Pub Discussion Board

I'm currently on Chapter 4 of Book 6.  And no, nothing has improved in my writing, unfortunately.  Too many stressors.

Eric Storm

darthel0101 wrote:

I am interested in the various alignments that David takes with those females that are his friends and would like to see him in a long-term relationship (please note that I am not proposing a permanent one) with one or more of them. 
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I really enjoy your work and wish that I could share it better with people who can also appreciate it.

First off, thank you for the feedback, and I'm glad you are enjoying the series.  As to the two points I've highlighted above:

I would personally say that David is already in a long-term relationship with Olissa, Flo, and Sam.  Perhaps you're meaning a more clearly romantic one, which I agree he does not currently have, but it would be hard to say he doesn't have an intimate (in both senses of the word) relationship with these three ladies.

As to your second point, I'm not quite clear on what you mean.  If you want to share the story with someone, send them to the website... or download the story and let them read it.  Or is the problem that you don't want them to know you read this stuff?  hehehe



Thanks again,
Eric Storm

Thanks for the well-wishes, but you're praying to the wrong god.  Pray to the God of Humongous Monetary Windfalls.  That will remove most of the stressors in my life, and give me more time to write.



Eric Storm

Another great year at Woodward. I loved the chapter, it was cool seeing such a large scale battle.

jdale: What is the purpose of any gang?

riun: You're going to give me the sum of your bonus?  Yay!  (hehehe)

Eric Storm

Glad you enjoyed it.  If I don't get my ass in gear, though, you're definitely going to be waiting longer than you want to for the next book.



Eric Storm

Eric Storm wrote:

Glad you enjoyed it.  If I don't get my ass in gear, though, you're definitely going to be waiting longer than you want to for the next book.



Eric Storm

how far ahead of the PRM are you?

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I think that we should reduce his stress level by giving the site the gift of more money.

Unfortunately the coffer is currently empty from all the holidays. I'm hoping for a nice bonus check we will see.

Such a change  waiting on the next chapter.

B

(posted from Calendar of Events - PRM)

Stay home and wait for chapter 1 of book 6 or go to a new years party. Decisions, decisions.

Posting this here since book 6's forum page has yet to be created.

Eric Storm wrote:

Okay, it's not a perfect solution, but here is the easiest way to do what you're doing:  (I think I got the steps right.  I haven't done it in a while...)

1. Download the HTML version of a story from this site.
2. Load the nav.html file into Calibre, instead of the chapters themselves.
3. Calibre loads files that are linked to in the initial file, so it will load everything.

This gives you an unfortunately ugly list of chapters at the beginning, but it does give you the entire book.  I am not, however, certain how it would handle the separator graphics.

All of this will become a moot point when I finally get version 2.0 of the site done, as I will be focusing on creating hand-done ebooks of all the completed stories on the site (not just mine), for members to download.

Eric Storm

fathertyme wrote:

My Method:

Open Calibre
  Add Books -> Empty Book (Book with no formats)
  Right click on new book (Edit book)

This brings up the book editor, and then I simply drag and drop chapters,

do a couple quick edits (verify order of files, change wolfpub.org references to be internal file based, import the graphics, and scare up a table of contents)

save it and it's done

Wow, I thought I knew how to use calibre pretty well before but after your comments damn, now the epubs Im make are looking great.

Okay, going to make fun of you a little bit here, to illustrate a point about trying to point out errors to authors.  Lots of people do it, I'm just using you as an illustration, so don't get all offended.

You THINK it's in Chapter 10?  You felt it important enough to mention, but not important enough to make a note of where the actual problem occurred?  WAY5 is over 175,000 words long.  What if the error ISN'T in Chapter 10?  Even if it's only one chapter off, I have to search through 43,000 words to find it...  A little precision would be in order!

Okay, done making fun of you.  Seriously, when you're going to point out an error to an author, especially in public, at least do them the courtesy of pointing directly to it.  In this case, you were, in fact, wrong.  The birthday scene happens in April, which is Chapter 11, not 10.  I was able to find it quickly this time because I remembered what month her birthday was, but my point is that it isn't always this clear cut; sometimes a description of an error is horribly vague.  A good description of the location of this particular error would have been "In Chapter 11, right near the beginning, during the birthday scene with Olissa..."  Also good (almost the best thing) would be to quote the error passage directly.  This allows an author to do a search on the file, and go right to the error.  I realize this may seem picky, but do you want your authors to spend their time searching for that error you told them about, or writing new material?

And in this case, it's not so much a continuity error as a typo.  I never intended the theater to be in Gorumshead, but my hands sometimes don't listen to my head.  Or my head doesn't listen to itself, or something like that.

I've fixed it in my copy.  I'll get a new version uploaded at some point (since it's not a major goof).

Thanks for letting me know,
Eric Storm