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Eric, the tone of your post would indicate to me that you are happy about all the writing you are getting done, so I am going to say congratulations and that I hope things continue to make it easy for you to get those worlds in your head down on "paper."

Update for May 20, 2016:

Agent of Change, Chapter 3, has been finished, and is with the reviewers  (Yes, I wrote it in 4 days.  No, it is not 2,000 words long, it's more than 12,000 words long).
The Woodward Academy, Year 6, Chapter 8: January, will probably be finished either today or tomorrow.

I'm not sure when I will start posting Agent of Change.  I'd like to be far enough ahead with it to be able to put it on a posting schedule, but I fear, as erratic as my writing has been the last couple years, that may mean having it nearly finished before I start posting it.  I'll just have to see how things go.  If my writing progresses as it has for the last few weeks, then it won't matter much, because I'll have the damned thing done in a couple months, anyway.


Eric Storm

Happy to see your muse has returned

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Update #2 for May 23, 2016:

Agent of Change, Chapter 4, has been started.

Eric Storm

Congrats bud.

You're making the rest of us look bad.

The chapter you posted is titled "chapter 9: February" I don't know if it's mislabeled or if you accidentally posted the wrong chapter.

Update for June 1, 2016:

Agent of Change, Chapter 4, is finished, and will be with the reviewers by the end of the day.

The Woodward Academy, Year 6, Chapter 10: March, was started a couple days ago.  (I forgot to mention it.)

My writing streak continues.  Today marks the 42nd straight day of writing, for a total of 120,000 words over those 42 days.  My yearly total is up over 170,000 now.

I almost thought I was going to have to break this streak.  I'm having problems with my computer, and it is threatening to prevent me from writing.  I've already ordered the new part, though, and it should be here tomorrow.  Hopefully, that will prevent any downtime in my writing.


Eric Storm

No, it's the $200 video card.

I had a problem with this card when I first bought the computer.  I spent *two months* dicking around with the computer assembler trying to get it taken care of.  I eventually got my card back, "repaired" (they said) by the manufacturer.

Well, if it's so "repaired", why am I having the same damned problem ten months later?

Needless to say, though I have gone with the same GPU spec, I've chosen a different manufacturer for it.  (Original was a Gigabyte, this one's an eVga.  The GPU is an nvidia GTX 960.)

Eric Storm

I'm not a gamer, but I do work on 3d artwork, and those programs are starting to use the GPU for processing.  I just wanted a computer that wouldn't be completely obsolete for at least five years.  (Please note:  The word "obsolete" in this context means "no longer useful", not "no longer state-of-the-art".)

Eric Storm

One of the definitions, but "no longer used" and "replaced by newer things" are also definitions of obsolete.

Eric Storm

As a computer repair tech I feel your pain Eric. I once had a video card from XFX with in its warranty period and what they told me to do would have voided the said warranty. Then there are the times when you send a bad hard drive back and they send you back a refurbished model.

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You rwlly want to put that in perspective, Eric?  In today's dollars, that $25/MB is closer to $125/MB.

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