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Finally some progress.
Crystal Structures 6 (the Epilogue included) is currently at 18 A4 pages, 14 of which are continuous, hopefully somewhat readable text. Since I don't have an active editor for GR, that means the chances that CS will be posted this year - barring any unknown catastrophes ahead - are quite good. Which also means that all of you (yes, apparently there is still a single individual not myself lurking out here for updates), who wait for the Dekagram to continue may hope for Business As Usual beginning in 2016. We'll see.
I'm still convinced there's a gazillion threads in CS that I failed to pick up and close properly, but at least the reworked Zach & Eliza scene is coming together nicely (though I still have to finish the paragraph about the tattoo - and no, that tattoo and the backstory about it is NOT negotiable!) and do a reread on paper to see, whether or not the scene holds up to scrutiny.
If that works out, then there are only two scenes left: the honoration and the epilogue with O'Mega's parcel, both of which will remain essentially unchanged plotwise - albeit some polishing and streamlining is required. And then it's done. Stay tuned. For realz.
:-)
And for reading all this to the end, here's an excerpt of today's new stuff:
His artificial skin had felt warm and natural, but then she’d held on just a little firmer, and there’d been no bones underneath but a smooth metal structure, reminding her that there beside her was enough power to bring down a combat spacecraft.
She suppressed a shiver, recalling piloting one he’d brought down. No, that had to have been the slaverlord she’d powered. She recalled being collected off the battlefield later without so much as a scratch – and that ship had been blown apart around her.
Crystal Structures 6 (the Epilogue included) is currently at 18 A4 pages, 14 of which are continuous, hopefully somewhat readable text. Since I don't have an active editor for GR, that means the chances that CS will be posted this year - barring any unknown catastrophes ahead - are quite good. Which also means that all of you (yes, apparently there is still a single individual not myself lurking out here for updates), who wait for the Dekagram to continue may hope for Business As Usual beginning in 2016. We'll see.
I'm still convinced there's a gazillion threads in CS that I failed to pick up and close properly, but at least the reworked Zach & Eliza scene is coming together nicely (though I still have to finish the paragraph about the tattoo - and no, that tattoo and the backstory about it is NOT negotiable!) and do a reread on paper to see, whether or not the scene holds up to scrutiny.
If that works out, then there are only two scenes left: the honoration and the epilogue with O'Mega's parcel, both of which will remain essentially unchanged plotwise - albeit some polishing and streamlining is required. And then it's done. Stay tuned. For realz.
:-)
And for reading all this to the end, here's an excerpt of today's new stuff:
His artificial skin had felt warm and natural, but then she’d held on just a little firmer, and there’d been no bones underneath but a smooth metal structure, reminding her that there beside her was enough power to bring down a combat spacecraft.
She suppressed a shiver, recalling piloting one he’d brought down. No, that had to have been the slaverlord she’d powered. She recalled being collected off the battlefield later without so much as a scratch – and that ship had been blown apart around her.
