Splitting Up Is Easy To Do

I have been taking events that were suppose to be set in one chapter and started to split them up into several, small chapters. This doesn't exhaust the reader with long, drawn out chapters, and plus with war having been declared, murders abound, and our protagonists surrounded by enemies that make great suspects, it keeps the pace exciting to the extent of having the reader feel as if he or she is trapped within the events surrounding the protagonists.

Danger, Will Robinson. Danger.

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Under murder, murder will come to be perpetrated.

A body, bloody and hacked to death, has been found at the end of this chapter. The mystery has begun, and will only be solved once many more bodies turn up on both sides of good and bad.

The shroud of the Moors has fallen.

Begun, the Negotiator's War, has.

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GO SOUTHERN!!!!!

My dad went to Grambling my mother went to Southern. But as a whole we've always supported Southern in the Bayou Classic. My brother attended Southern for Grad School. I was there for three years for undergrad.

Go Southern.

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UPDATE: Grambling won. Oh, well. 31-13. Turned Southern's score inside out. Of course, though, Southern won the Battle of the Bands.

A Whole Day's Work

I have reached chapter twenty-four. That's the good news. Bad news. Have to split the contents of Chapter Twenty-Three into two chapters. But the bulk of the events have happened in Chapter twenty-three. This next chapter will be small, and a sum up done creatively to show a character's promotion through the death of another. The mystery then begins.

I checked the pagination. I am at 262 pgs for a proper type setting of 5.5 x 8.5. Twelve pages over budget ... for the second set of 150 pgs. Maybe that will all be straightened out. But I am 272 pgs on a 8 x 11. It's a relief to know that I'm 10 pages behind what I'm writing on the 8 x 11. Chapter Twenty-Five and Chapter Twenty-Six will mark the end of the 2nd part of this story. I do have to say a lot happens in 262 pages. Once the other two chapters are added, will 150 pages sum all thr problems of our protaginist up. Hopefully, give or take a page or two ... or ten.

I actually wanted to release ACoM around this time. But, I'll settle for being 2/3rds through the book. Editing begins next week, Dec. 1st.

However, can I hammer out 150 pgs before February?

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Remix the Remix the Revamp the Remix

Site is finalized. Faaaaar more simple than what I had revamped it to. Too much was goin' on the pages. This, they're all of the same template. The site looks more cohesive. Basically this all came about because I wanted each title to have their own page. All the titles being on one page, plus having their synopsis was going to get crowded when more titles arrive, even more crowded when the next title arrives. There is still a 'missing' page that I want to incorporate. That page will cut down on all the written links. [As of 2:50 am, Nov 22 as I edit this post, the missing page will not be needed. I like the flow as it stands.]

But for now ...

Check it out.

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Been all day on this. Now back to writing ACoM. Need to be finalizing that.

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Remix the Remix

The site has a few more revamps before finalization. Just trying to consolidate genres into each section. Still love the look. Still trying to go for that magic look. There be spells conjured by this magician.

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The Remix, Sun!!!!

I like the new look. Badass, sun. Check us out. We all new. Bigger. Stronger. Faster.

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Give a special shout out to my baby, Nekia. Damn near all the stuff in the pic is hers, 'cept the dice, tarot card, and the journal. I like the simplicity of the new site. There's no more clutter. Workin' on the ACoM commercial at the moment ...

... as well as ACoM itself. Going well. Writing well.

In case you missed it the first time. Ancient-Art-of-Facts.

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