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Elessar wrote:

There is no such thing as quietly drinking.

dustbunny wrote:

What if we're sitting in the corner quietly getting shit-faced while giggling at everybody else? 🤔

Um...

Alcohol is a depressant.  There are a great many "quiet drunks".

Eric Storm

Eric Storm wrote:

You are the #7 most talkative forum member.  Having said that:

#2 is Bridget.
#3 hasn't posted in 2 1/2 years.
#4 is dead.
#'s 5 & 6 are authors.  Well... #5 says he's an author, but he hasn't finished anything in like a decade, so... 

So... yeah, kinda puts your position in a little more perspective.

...what?  #1?  That's some asshole named "Eric Storm".  Not sure who he is, but he REALLY can't shut up...



Eric Storm

Interesting

Elessar wrote:

So how goes the writing my good sir?

Look back on this thread.

You see any mention of writing?

That's how it's going.

Eric Storm

Um...  If I wasn't ready to share it, why would you asking, suddenly entice me to do so?

I share updates with you as soon as they're relevant.  Very, very rarely have I ever withheld information about where I'm at in my writing.  In fact, I can't actually think of a time I've done so.

Am I writing?  Here and there.  Is anything ready, or close to ready, for posting?  Obviously not.

Eric Storm

Update for August 31, 2022:

Agent of Change, Chapter 18, has been finished, and is with the reviewers.

Eric Storm

PS:  NO, it will obviously NOT be posted on September 1st. 

Congrats on writing again. Looking forward to the next chapter when it's ready.

I know it has been several months, what’s the stick with Where the Brontosaurus Roam? I mean anything besides not writing. Stuck on anything specific or just not feeling the muse with it right now?

Crap that’s the story I’m most interested in reading more of with AoC right behind it.

Hakhazar wrote:

(but quietly, no nudging) for more in that world.

Well, therein is the problem.  Your version of "no nudging" essentially resulted in "no interest expressed".  I understand, and appreciate, the idea that you don't want to do the whole, "When's the next chapter coming out?  GIMME GIMME GIMME!" thing.  On the flip side of that, if no one says anything about a story, I have no way to gauge the actual level of interest, and I just naturally assume there isn't any.  Sad as it is for me, I'm not telepathic (wish I was: it would make social anxiety much easier to deal with...), therefore, if you don't express your thoughts, I won't know your thoughts.

Good ways to express your interest are presenting ideas for things you'd like to see in the story, or telling me what you particularly liked in what's already written.  That gives me an idea of what to include more of in the future.  Also, asking about the story, if no one has done so in weeks/months, is fine.  Us authors just don't want to hear it every other day.

Eric Storm

Elessar wrote:

I’m either an asshole...

... *biting tongue really hard* ...  No comment... 

...or I ramble so much I lose track of my own thought and can’t get it out there yet.

Read, re-read, and re-write.  I regularly edit my longer forum posts several times before they get submitted.  Or make yourself a bullet list, getting the important points down first, then go back and fill in with explanation.

I’ll reread the entire WtMR and WtBR and see what I can see. I am sure there was some stuff from the first story that could help with the second one.

While I'm hardly going to discourage you from rereading one of my stories, it is unlikely that WMR is going to help with WBR.  None of the dinosaurs are the same, and the only person from the original story that's in the current story is Tim.

Eric Storm

Elessar wrote:

Yeah, the things I should do.

While the dinosaurs aren’t the same. There wasn’t an exact location mentioned that I can recall. Maybe they arrived in a different time but close to where they arrived last time.

I’ll have to reread because I don’t remember if traveling into the past creates a different timeline for that experience or not. Or could they put a message in a bottle and say hey, you fucked up.

Do you realize how much the planet's surface changes in 80 million years?  Their last trip went back to 70mya, the Late Cretaceous.  This mission went back 150mya, to the Late Jurassic.  Even if it was the "same Earth" (it's not), there's no way you'd realize you were in the same place, even if you were standing right on top of it.

Here's a website that will let you see (one interpretation - there does not seem to be consensus) what the map of the globe looked like over time: Prehistoric Earth Globes.

But, in the case of the "TripperVerse" (?), "time travel" is actually interdimensional travel with a time component.  The team is not on "Earth Prime" (defined as "the Earth you started your time trip on").  Nor are they on "Earth Book 1 Delta" (defined as "the Earth that the first team wound up on"). They are on "Earth Book 2 Delta".  This has been mentioned in the books already.

Eric Storm

PS:  Why "Delta"?  Delta is the letter used to denote a change in something.  For instance, "Delta-v" is a change in velocity.  (Yes, you nerds, I know I should use the Greek letter.  I'm not digging out the character map for THAT.)