New scenes:
Chapter 8 — Scene two: In which Alfric experiments with his new power, and discovers the forest isn't the best place to be loud.
Total new words: 1,000
Total project word count: 19,600
Updated scenes:
Chapter 7 — Scene two: Have slightly re-written the scene in which Alfric meets Forest-Flower to make it flow better, and to make consistent Forest-Flower's means of communication with Alfric (also added IQ range for Forest Nymphs).
New scenes:
Chapter 8 — Scene one: In which Alfric wakes up after a night's sleep to find an unexpected visitor in his camp.
Total new words: 1,400
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Here's the concept art for Daphne's crest. The motto reads, 'Opulentos Fortuna Iuvat,' and translates to, 'Fortune Favors the Wealthy'.
(Yes, I know Opulentus is spelled with a u above. That's an error.)
2019-07-01 16:30:57 +0000 UTC View Post
New scenes:
Other Changes:
Draft Update Word Count: 2019-06-21 15:56:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Links:
Another update to the currently longest scene of the book. We're actually pretty near the end of this scene though, and we'll be shifting PoV after this, if briefly.
Update Length: 900 words
Total Project Length: 14,300 words
2019-06-19 16:21:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Very quick update today. Had a ton of stuff going on, so I was only able to squeeze out 900 more words for the current scene. All things considered, I'm actually pretty happy about that :)
Draft update word count: 900
Total project word count: 13,500
2019-06-18 15:41:13 +0000 UTC View Post
New week, new updates.
Note: The link goes to chapter 6, not chapter 5.
Update word count: 1,100 words
Total project word count: 12,500 words
2019-06-17 17:31:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all,
Yesterday, my websites all got attacked by a well known bot-net and my hosting provider shut them all down so my passwords couldn't be brute forced. My apologies if anyone couldn't get onto them.
As such, today we have two updates! Today's and yesterday's.
And we're now also so very close to the point where our hero actually arrives in the new world. Next update w...
2019-06-14 16:08:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Time to get back into the Trial by Conquest swing of things.
Today we have three new scenes.
Scene one: Alfric meets the rat people
Scene two: ???
Scene three: ???
Update word count: 1,750
Total project word count: 9,100
2019-06-05 18:18:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Another two scenes for chapter three (1,100 words)
Scene one: A very short monologue cutaway.
Scene two: Alfric arrives home.
I'm quite liking the pace the story is currently clipping along at. I was worried that it would take too long for us to get somewhere with some tension, but the tension seems to be doing quite well at the moment.
Total project word count: 7,400 words
2019-05-14 19:25:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter 1 contains the dragon scene and city chase scene
Chapter 2 contains the tournament scene, cat-brother scene, and a new scene
I've decided that I'm going to start posting 'draft updates' rather than 'chapter releases' since many of the changes I'm making include going backwards to stuff I've done before. I'll list out the updates I'm making in bullet point form, probably with links to what's been changed.
So, for this update, we have:
Ladies and Gentlemen!
After the feedback from the first chapter came in, I decided I needed to back up a bit, and not try to cram so damn much world building into the very first major scene of the book. Basically everyone who read the second scene was massively confused, and that isn't acceptable. The first scene seems fine. So we're starting again from the beginning of scene two.
Multiple scenes, each introducing a core part of the story, rather than ramming it all down the reade...
2019-04-17 17:47:21 +0000 UTC View PostWell, here we go. *Takes deep breath*. This is going to start off quite hardcore, so prepare yourself for that.
Trial by Conquest — Chapter one — Part 1/?
Words: 3,700 words
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy/LitRPG
The premise of this story is that our protagonist has to play and win a real-life 4X game of Civilisation/Heroes-of-Might-and-Magic/Anno-1602 against some really nasty pieces of work, ...
2019-04-10 17:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostMy apologies for the mouse clicking in the audio. I was experimenting with a new form of audio recording, which obviously still needs work.
The pilot episode for my new monthly (probably) news update.
2019-03-01 18:58:16 +0000 UTC View PostUpdates!
Still working on outlines for my original fantasy works and loving the process. I've often talked about the ideal of separating prose from plot and I feel I've now found a sweet spot in that process. I'm still unsure exactly how best to communicate that process to you all, or even if that's a good idea. As far as progress tracking goes, I'm inclined to do it by index card count, even if it's not a wonderful tracking mechanism, it's still better than nothing.
One ind...
2019-01-18 18:41:03 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the first week of the new year, and such, I'm resetting the weekly update counter. Better to start now rather than waiting for when I've been at this for years and start reaching into the hundreds.
This week, I'm working on the outlines for RS and my new project, which I want completed before I start on the editing/drafting.
Next Wednesday, we're going to have the next, and probably last, part of the next DP&SW chapter.
I'm still brainstorming a good way to sh...
2019-01-04 19:14:52 +0000 UTC View PostYear in review and plans going forward. Thank you all so much for supporting my work. I'm really looking forward to what 2019 brings.
TLDR; Wednesday will be next chapter part release for DP&SW.
2018-12-30 20:06:16 +0000 UTC View PostSecond to last update of the year.
Christmas time is here!
Everyone cheer!
Beer.
Also turkey, roast potatoes, and lots of time to reflect over the previous year and make plans for the upcoming one.
It also means Christmas presents, and my gift from me to you is another chapter part for DP&SW, this Sunday.
See you then!
— J.M. Coombs
2018-12-21 21:02:58 +0000 UTC View PostEvening all,
Since Wednesday's publishing, I've been spending time outlining new works, which I'm very excited about, but I'm still not ready to share them, so this Sunday I'll be cracking on with another DP&SW chapter part. I've really been in a DP&SW mood lately. See you all on Sunday!
— J.M. Coombs (LeadVonE)
2018-12-14 23:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostWhile thinking about this post I had to make a decision about whether I would do a yearly summary and reflection now, or at the end of the month. After thinking about it, I decided to do it at the end of the month (year), if only because the weekly update does sometimes, very occasionally, get skipped (I think we missed one this year).
Updates!
This Sunday, I will be publishing the final version of the next chapter of DP&SW chapter.
This Sunday, I'll also be publishing a high-l...
2018-12-07 20:07:03 +0000 UTC View PostEvening all,
We finished the book two first draft of Heroes, Magic, and Backpacking!
This Sunday will see the release of the final chapter part for the current chapter of DP&SW.
After that we're going to be doing some serious editing. At least the first standard publishing period will be just edits (although added up those edits will probably be as long (or longer) as a whole chapter part release anyway).
Also, over the next few days I'm going to be sending out m...
2018-11-30 20:01:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Name: A Different Kind of Hero (2)
Length: 3,700 words
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Link: richardstruggle.com/203/
2018-11-28 19:20:42 +0000 UTC View PostIt's weekly update time!
This Sunday's release will hopefully be the final chapter of the next Richard Struggle book.
This is something I can't help feeling I've said before...
Just for a point of reference, we're currently at a word count of 37,000 with one more chapter left (I swear), and quite a few scenes that I'll need to go and add in earlier in the work. When I finished the first draft of the first Novella, it was only 23,000 words. That increased to 27,000 over the course o...
2018-11-23 19:36:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Chapter Name: Epiphany > Prophecy
Length: 3,500 words
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
Link: richardstruggle.com/199
2018-11-21 21:47:10 +0000 UTC View Post