Cannot Tame the Rewrite?

I wrote Cannot Tame the Wind back in 2016, after throwing it on Amazon for a while I've pulled it and decided I could rework and rewrite it some to make it a better story.  Going to be posting it chapter by Chapter at RoyalRoad and hopefully get some feedback to help with making it the best story. The fun thing is I had intended on writing a trilogy then put it aside to let it breath and just forgot about it. Still no guarantee of the trilogy, but I do want to improve the story.

In theory it'll appear here once approval is complete,  will update the link if it changes, probably take a few days for approval.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/92369/Cannot-Tame-The-Wind

Back in the swing of things,

Due to middle section bloat, I decided to split up the book Skills and Demons : First Encounters, into two books. With the first weighing in at 142K words before editing and revising, its pretty hefty and for paper copies on Amazon that is about as big as I can make it without having to charge $20 per copy. After finding a nice stopping point, I took a month off to work on revising and rest some. 

That time has passed and I started working on book two, which I'm kind of iffy on the title as of yet. I have a rough outline, not as detailed as some previous projects, but its a start, and I'm aiming for 100K words. So far I'm at 10K words so getting there. 

If you want to start reading it on RR, the start of book two is, https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26422/skills-demons-crunchy/chapter/530381/book-2-chapter-1-grinding-phat-lootz Not all the chapters I've written are up as of yet, I've scheduled a bunch to release over the next couple of weeks, but do know they are coming. My patreon has stuff as soon as I finish a chapter and run through Grammarly and do a once-through. https://www.patreon.com/UnwrittenDreams 

Running free book promo

My journey in fatherhood started almost the same time I decided to start writing actual books instead of stopping after starting them.  

So figured I'd do something for father's day.

Running a free book promo on Amazon for Mortis Operandi: New Hire from, 

Saturday, June 20, 2020, 12:00 AM PDT to Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 11:59 PM PDT

https://www.amazon.com/Mortis-Operandi-Hire-Edward-Buchanan-ebook/dp/B07T46B4NM

If you don't have it feel free to snag

Soon to be released june 22nd 2020

I am eagerly awaiting the release of my short story on Amazon. Counting the days until the June 22nd date, and hoping people read it.  While I know it is not going to generate thousands of dollars, my expectations are set more realistic, somewhere around a hundred or two. To be honest, if any money is generated it'll be more than what I had previously. I'm sure other authors have used this method as a way to fund their writing hobby, I should have asked around before I did it. 

Let's hope I'm not wasting anyone's time. 

Been working on the outline for the 2nd half of the novel, which now I should start calling it a sequel. The expansion of the middle from the first book really showed me how my first outline failed, or I failed in following it. Also I started making a map because as my world grew I started forgetting names, distances, and general terrain. 

Maybe I should not have given a pre-order timeframe. Oh well, we will see how it goes on Monday.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08B86FNZK

Finally, finished...

Ok, more like I'm finally at the halfway point. Started a project 10months ago. Planned one book initially then possibly a sequel. However due to the story wandering around and growing in the middle, I decided to split the one book into 2. At 140K words, if I kept it as one book, I'm guessing it would easily be 250K, which while nice, would not be feasible to get paperback versions at an affordable price.

Now that I have time to sit and think about it, I decided to take one of the short stories I wrote for the book and list it on Amazon. Figured it would help fund the cost of editing the main book.

Not much else to say, lots of ideas for other novels and books. I have an idea for a Colfax and Dead sequel, and even have ~7K words started on it, but I didn't have enough of a story to really write a sequel. The same with Cannot Tame the Wind, have an idea for book 2, but doesn't seem to be enough for a whole book. 

Of all the ideas in the past year, the one that seems to have some meat to it, is the Skills & Demons storyline. Part of it is I get to take all the horrible D&D memories I have and share them and inflict new ones upon the characters.  

It has been doing ok at RoyalRoad where I've been posting it, have gotten a lot of excellent comments that'll help when I start the revision. 

If you are interested in effectively beta reading, check them out, I'm doing two versions of the story, one with game text (crunchy) and one without (non-crunchy).

Crunchy

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/26422/skills-archetypes-and-demons-first-encounters

Non-Crunchy

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/29481/skills-archetypes-and-demons-first-encounters

Also coming up on my 1 year anniversary for Patreon, if you want to toss a dollar my way, feel free, I typically post chapters to the Patreon 5 days before they hit on RoyalRoad. https://www.patreon.com/UnwrittenDreams 

Either way, I hope my writing entertains. 

An update suddenly appears!

For NaNoWriMo, I thought I would work on a fun project. While I wanted to hit 50K words, I knew it wouldn't be possible with my current words per day. Most days if I hit 1K words it is a good day.

I had also been pondering getting rid of my Macbook, and I completed that task in November. I don't mind having multiple OS's or different ecosystems, all I care about is having the best tool for whatever job I'm trying to complete. However Apple's recent stances against Right to Repair just irks me the wrong way. I could go deeper into it, but its a decision most people will have to make for themselves.

So I sold my macbook and got me a little Lenovo 330s 15ARR(15", AMD 2500u, SSD and 20g of RAM).  The battery life isn't as great as the macbook but this way I feel like I'm not supporting Apple. I was already a scrivener users for both windows and Mac so didn't have to make any changes there.

Either way, I've been working on a Novella, maybe even a novel depending on how the story fills out. You are welcome to read a few chapters at http://mortis.operandi.biz/ I'm also posting the chapters at Wattpad https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/167398745-mortis-operandi . Feel free to check it out.  I'll try to update the site often as I add more chapters.

Corner of Colfax and Dead

Part 1 of Colfax and Dead is complete. I made a cover and put it on Amazon for $0.99 if anyone wants to read it. Also available for Kindle Unlimited. It is my venture into Urban Fantasy. I have Part 3 written and am working on Part 2. I know it seems odd that I am writing them slightly out of order but... This series is also my venture into writing without a structured outline ahead of time. So give it a shot and let me know what you think.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073NYZGP7