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Hey, Sol!

We were able to buy credits with the previous site. Has that been done did away with?

Also, regarding Norm's comment above, there might be another way to reward authors who attract reviews through their brilliant writing. What if, for every review, they get a percentage of their credits back? This is regarding the credits it takes to publish. Say, each review garners the author a refund 10%. Thus, ten reviews and the author recoups the cost of posting. I hardly ever see ten reviews on my own stuff, but even a little back in my account would help tremendously (for me, anyway; I can hardly keep a credit in my account, but as a result some of my posts earn a reviewer over 5 credits!). And this way the author earns the credits, so it's all on him or her. Unless the author has a large following, this would still require reviews to get credits to post, preserving the site's original idea. And of course you can always limit the amount of credits back to the cost of publishing.

Just a thought.

Shoot! I start my latest in the middle of a card game. Of course, I have a big-ass Prologue before that, to set the stage. But... right in the middle of a card game. And as kdot suggests, a lot of the backstory is told in slow moments through character's recollections, or in conversation between characters (when the moment is right for such backstory, of course). And did I mention... in the middle of a card game?

I use WordPerfect (X8 user here) religiously and it does the same, but only when you run a grammar check with Grammatik, which I never do, to be honest. I like the typo indicator, though. Too bad neither word processor doesn't notify you of words you done forgot to put in! Especially those little two-letter bastards! Argh!

I have read this and I enjoyed it. I have read the second novel in the trilogy, and enjoyed that one as well. For those of you who have been with the site for a while, you may recognize this as having been workshopped here. It turned out rather well.

Ain't getting reviews a fun thing? Especially when they're good reviews! Good jobs.

I tried to post the revised Prologue to my novel. I made sure it was version 5, as opposed to version 3. The new Prologue had about 2K more words, so it could definitely not be confused with ver3. However, when I published it and checked the link to the posting on the Home page, it linked to version 3. I could not fix it, so I just made version 3 unavailable. So, the version 5 (most recent) Prologue is the only one available for reviewers.

I think this bug is something specific to the Prologue, or chapter 0. Just putting this out there so people make sure the revised chapter being posted is linked correctly on the Home page. I haven't heard of anyone else having an issue similar to this, so it may just be me. Or my little Prologue.

I type everything in WordPerfect X8 on a Windows 7 operating system. When it comes time to post, I open Word 07, cut 'n paste, then cut 'n paste from Word into the site here. This preserves all of my formatting, including hard returns and spaces and italics. The only thing I correct are centering the section break asterisks.

When I try to cut 'n paste from WordPerfect, I lose a lot of the formatting. That leads me to believe it's the styles thing in Word that this site works with. But I refuse to use Word as my main word processor since it doesn't have Reveal Codes, which gives WordPerfect users absolute control over their documents (among other numerous reasons).

And a few years later, after the debacle at the accounting office, Lake-Ellen thought she might have been better off sitting beneath the Heart of the Forest as that storm approached after all.

Hey, Norm d'Plume.

I think I told you already, but I do have plans for another story involving Lake-Ellen, this one sort of a prequel before the events of Dew Drops (or In Possession of N-ergy, if you're keeping track). I want to write about her two seasons as an apprentice to Radishal-Wren. I think it'll only be about novella length. But I think it should be pretty fun to write.

Also, I think I have a cool idea for a short story set sixty or seventy years after Dew Drops. It won't involve Lake-Ellen or the characters here, but I mention them tangentially. Anyone who knows this story will recognize the reference. Those that do not, though, won't miss out on anything.

But both are for tomorrow. Right now, my stock of credits is utterly depleted (0.15 left after publishing) so I got that to work on before I hammer out chapter 28. And a short Epilogue to tie things up. Just wish it hadn't taken so darn long to get this first draft done did up.

Thank you for reading. I appreciate your comments.

seabrass

To those who've read chapter 15 already, I added a few paragraphs on the end. Nothing much, just some material I intended to include originally. But I thought I would let those who've read it know.

Why, yes! As a matter of fact, chapter 15 is up as well! Hope you like!