The Pub Discussion Board

*sigh*

So we'll go over this once again.

Do you really think I'm withholding chapters for months, with no releases at all, to make readers wait on content?  Why would I do that? 

You get a new chapter of Agent of Change when I manage to finish writing a new chapter.  If you look back at the writing log, I finished writing this chapter at the beginning of the month.  Then it went through my reviewers.  Once they were done with it, I posted it.  There is no down-time or intentional delay in the system.  Chapters are either "in production" (ie, being written), "in review", or they've been posted.

I'm sorry you find the time between chapter posts annoying.  Trust me, you aren't even half as annoyed about it as I am.  I have so many stories that I know I'm not going to get to tell because I'm never going to manage to get to them, because I have to finish what I'm already working on, and that's taking forever.

You think you've got it bad?  My best donor is waiting for me to continue Where the Brontosaurs Roam.  I haven't touched that story in three or four years.

So... yeah.  If you don't have the patience to hang with me, I'm probably not the writer you want to be reading.  My output is, has always been, and most likely always will be, very sporadic.  Sometimes I get on a streak and I can pump out two, maybe even three, chapters of something or other in a single month.  On the other hand, sometimes I go for six months without putting down a single word.  That's just how it is.  I can't change that any more than you can.  But you bitching about it only depresses me, and depression does make it much harder to write anything, so...  act accordingly.

Eric Storm

PS:  Before someone brings it up, Misfits is a different beast.  I had written a huge amount of that story before releasing any of it, so yes, there are chapters of that just sitting and waiting to be posted, but I am posting one chapter a month.  As soon as you catch up to where I am, Misfits will be just like Agent of Change: chapters will be posted when I get them finished.  As to why I didn't post all of the written chapters at once:  Did you really want to be waiting for me to get more written, without having anything at all to read during those months?

Great to see a new chapter, and a cracking good one at that.

I love the way the Kurtz family is getting its due, and love the interplay with Veena's husband.

I am wondering what Erin at AMCAR has against Nick - and whether it will inevitably end with Nick getting another notch on his bedpost :-)

Anyway, I know wishing won't make it so (especially since you haven't even begun writing chapter 33) - but, y'know .... :-)

(posted from Chapter 32)

If we are defining the term "Atheism" as "The belief that there is no God", then Atheism has always been faith-based, as "faith" is merely the belief in something for which there is currently no proof.  You cannot prove a negative, therefore you can never prove "There is no God."

Of course, modern Atheists seem to want to change the definition of Atheism, replacing it with the definition of Agnosticism, which is simply the acceptance that there is no proof either way, and is thus the only truly non-faith-based system.

Not sure how this was relevant to current chapters, but oh well. 

Eric Storm