The Battle of Cardoman Part 2

Is now posted. A Point or Honor Chapter 22. With luck and time the missing chapter 20 will be posted by the end of the month. The Old Dog and I have it about a third of the way but for me with hunting season at hand I am taking most of the next week off from writing.

Faster and Faster

I have APOH 22 ready but for the final smoothing pass and edit. I will send it off to the Dog for a look-see but it will likely go up Saturday. Oldiwan sent me an e-mail update of 20 to work on today. Twenty is the last of the Triocat section. But somehow he omitted attaching the part of the chapter with the words and stuff. I should get it tonight and start my first section tomorrow. Depending on various factors it could go up before 22. Four chapters this month no matter how things shake out.

To paraphrase Jerry Pournelle: There Will be Words!

Out of Sync Again

It shouldn’t be long this time. Chapter 21 of APOH just went up. That chapter is the start of the Battle for Cardoman. The Old Dog is working on chapter 20 which will finish up the Battle on Triocat. Looking for that in a couple of weeks.

In the mean time I have chapter 22 well on its way so there ought to be another chapter posted in a week or ten days. I still have my fingers crossed for finishing by the end of the year.

The Battle on Triocat 3 – APOH Chapter 19

The Draft of APOH Chapter 19 is now posted. The Old One wrote almost all of the this one. He is working on Triocat 4 which will be chapter 20 and next. I have the chapter after that one finished which we talk about internally as Cardoman 1 and also have a start on Chapter 22.

We are hoping to get three more chapters up this month (20 – 22) and finish the book by late December or early January. Look for another chapter in two weeks.

Good things a Commin’

The Old Dog has near half of Chapter 19 complete. I think we can finish off that one and be done with it in five or six more days. We call that next chapter 19 or Triocat 3.

Triocat 4,chapter 20, will be next and 2 more weeks is the goal. I am writing ahead and have chapter 21 close to two thirds finished. So a week after 20 and we can put 21 on line. I am also ahead on the concluding chapters so we just might get this thing done by the end of the year.

Time for APOH 18

The new Chapter 18 is up. Next we will visit Triocat again and see how the Ryman forces are doing. That one is the Old Dog’s, he will be the lead author and I will take care of details and adding things to bolster it out and fit into the Cardoman Universe as seamlessly as possible.

If things go as we would like it should arrive in about two weeks. In the interim I am posting more often at Never So Few and lately am posting fall pictures taken around Castle Calvert. Take a look when you are finished here.

Staying in Touch

Chapter 18 of A Point of Honor is half way done so it does look like I will get it on line by the end of October. For people like me that like to do word counts that will give it 85,000 words with seven chapters to go.

The entire Cardoman Saga is now over 430,000 words and that seems like a lot. But the Colony Alchibah book as a single volume went close to 460,000. And that was part of the problem with keeping it going.

My ultimate goal with APOH is to finish the draft very early next year and by that I mean January. Doable but I will have to stay steady.

Note 10/27 — Chapter 18 is finished but for the final draft edit. Will be up on time.—Wes

In With the New

Chapter 17 of APOH is online but there is more. The Old Dog has a short story posted into the Never So Few Website called “Need Help, Ask a Ranger!” He has created a section over there like the short story thing we do here. He calls it Tales From The Interregnum and you can navigate from the NSF sidebar.

I’ve have a partial scene from APOH on the main NSF page called ‘The Bar Fight.” It will end up in APOH sometime in the future.

The next APOH chapter is mine then two chapters from the Old One. I have it started so stay tuned.

Chapter 15 Posted

We are now back in sync for the second time. Fifteen went up today and sixteen has been up for a couple of weeks. Chapter 17 is about half way complete so it will be here in a week or two.

APOH 16 Gets Posted

We are out of sequence again with Chapter 16 up and 15 left to finish. The Old Dog tells me he is nearly complete on that one so we could have another one posted in a hurry.

My next part of the book will be back on Trudelheim for a look at how General Ramseyer and his troops from New Britain are holding up.