Out of Sequence

A Point of Honor Chapter 14 is posted. A keen eyed observer would see that chapter 13 is missing from the table of contents. This has nothing to do with unlucky numbers but with the fact that I am not close to finishing it yet.

Chapter 14 begins a new storyline and was ready to go a couple of days past so I decided to put it up now. The Old one, responsible for the plot here and most of the wordage, can now do an on-screen edit. But the basic details will remain as written.

I hope to have 13 complete in another week and then we will be back in sync.

A Point of Honor Prologue

Just posted is the Prologue to APOH. It is a minor reworking of the short story The Triocat Incident. The Old Dog and I are working on the next two chapters right now.

One is a continuation of Chapter 12 and the other jumps ahead from the Prologue and deal with events on Triocat contemporaneously with the story line of APOH. That chapter will also be the Old Dog’s and is close to complete. They may not even go up in order because I think the Old Ones chapter gets finished first.

At Last Chapter 12

A Point of Honor 12 is finally posted in draft. I meant for this to be a one chapter interlude but got carried away with Raquel Zavala’s biography so it will take another chapter to get to the events now taking place on Triocat.

I am certain the Old Dog will not complain.  And like always I will do some more editing once I see how this one reads on line.

Some Editing on the Horizon

I went right ahead and started my next chapter of APOH. Might not come next in the novel but it is what I want to get on paper now. I am going to talk about the people that went on the mission to Alaraf and their retrurn to Novi. The only problem is that Clay Grayson was on Alaraf and in the last two chapters I have him on Cardoman as well!

That could work without change because I haven’t set the time-line in stone—yet.  But what I want to write next will set the time-line and be at odds with chapters 10 and 11. So—- What I need to do now is replace Clay Grayson with Paul Olivera in the last two chapters. Not a big deal as Grayson is only mentioned about a half dozen times. Still an hour or more of editing the website and the same on my chapter drafts.

I gotta do it though to make things work the way I see them. This is one of the disadvantages of putting up chapters before a book is complete.  I have had to do it before and likely again.  I will fix it all tomorrow.

Chapter 11 of APOH is In Place!

A Point of Honor Draft Chapter 11 is now up in draft. It went fairly fast as I was finishing off a sequence of chapters. There is a lot of detail I could add and I just might do that someday when the book is finished and I do a final edit.

The Olddog is working on a chapter now that Never So Few is finished and it could come next. On the other hand I might finish another before he has the time to complete it. Either way I should have one more chapter up by the end of the month.

Cardoman Space

Cardoman Space in the FutureVerse

It has taken me a long time to get this map together but I finally made it. I used the Open Office presentation program to do the most of the work with a touch of Photo Styler for the stellar background. It does not show all of the occupied systems but covers all of them playing a prominent role in the novels thus far.

Cardoman Space is a sphere roughly 400 light years in diameter. Up to this point I had an idea where most of these star systems were located in relation to the Sun and Cardoman but now I can say I know for sure and can use that information to help with description and to move the plotting along.

In order to fit in the column WordPress down sized the image slightly but if you click on the image you will get a slightly cleaner view.

Note: 7-22-09 – Did a little editing on the photo. I think I have it right now. —Wes

APOH Draft Chapter 10 is Up

This is the middle of a three chapter sequence and the ending of the sequence will be next. Sometimes I skip around Cardoman Space putting a scene in from here or there as events are happening on many different planets at the same time. But I think this section will read better if all three chapters are sequential.

So you can look at APOH 10 and then go on over to Never So Few when you are finished. Look for another chapter and end of this sequence in a couple of weeks.

Chapter 10 is Close

Lot of unforeseen events in the last couple of weeks, a visit from the Outlaw Don and a crash over at Never So Few, but I have more than two thirds of APOH 10 finished and it should go up this weekend.

Take a look at NSF for some other postings of interest but stay tuned for the next chapter here as well.

Update 7/10: A page to go still on track. Look for it Sunday.

I am Whipped

The great upgrade is finished over at Never So Few.  It is now running on Fedora 11 with all the extra bells and whistles save one!

The mail server does not yet support Fedora 11, just a matter of time.  Can I get some sleep now?

It’s a Wrap!!

The link will take you to the Novel Stat Page of Never So Few. The Old One and I finished it up and got the last pieces posted today. I am quite pleased of course but that is going to mean I spend more time on APOH. And that is something else I am pleased about and looking forwards to. I start chapter 10 in the morning.