So with Fallout 4's announcement, I'm pushed back here. As some people would have figured out, Salvage was set in a stand in for New England and Boston/"Broncton" was going to be the final showdown location. Some might have picked up on the locations and references I made over time. Right now, I'm looking forward to seeing what the actual team does and how some of the unused ideas for things in my neck of the woods are done when put to the Fallout lens rather than my own.

This is a crosspost from my Tumblr; where I occasional talk about stuff. You can find it here

If you do not read, you will never be a writer.

Let me clarify.

The written word is an ages old craft. There is literally thousands of documents showing this craft. Utilize them. Go to a bookstore, now. Buy some books. No money? Library. No library? Download it. If you’re reading this, you’re on the internet so you have some means of acquiring books.

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Next Friday, August 9th, Salvage returns. Re-edited, remastered, in some cases rewritten.

I will be reuploading the redone chapters once a week until I wrap up with the ending of Salvage Book 1: Reactions. Then I’ll be slowing down to work on Book 2: Reflections. This will NOT stop the production of Broken Glass Blues. I’m using the several week lead up time to familiarize myself with 50’s Beat and Counterculture movements in order to bring out the style I want for Broken Glass Blues.

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Crossposted from tumblr.

So now that I’m thinking about Salvage, I figure I can talk about this finally.

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Okay, so on the off day that I do need to go into my day job, I tend to be on for 11 hour shifts. As a result, it's a lot of me being alone with very little to actually do and armed with my grooveshark account. I tend to get a lot of production stuff done on those days, and I use music to help keep my already sketchy sanity. So I ask you guys, have any suggestions for me?

So, I was bandying this idea around in my head for a while now and decided to go ahead and start it. I call this little project Salvage: the B-Sides. The B-Sides are going to be little short stories, vignettes, and the like for the Salvage story. They will be little bits that won't make it into the main story for pacing, style, perspective and other reasons. I've decided to open these up with a short showing the first time Cutter and Summer Bounty met, and the deal that brought them together.

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I'm sure most of you have noticed the incredible delay in my getting chapter 10 of Salvage out. The excuses are simple and few: I've scrapped the entire first version of the chapter and restarted when I was dissatisfied with the emotional tone and arc of the chapter as written, as well as not having much coming my way in terms of usual work is forcing me to look into more regular options. Both of these have eaten my time and have attributed to some particularly poor writing sessions and has

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I just wanted a new thing to put here and clear out the old.

So, watchers of me. If I were to do some side stuff for Salvage, anything of particular note interest you? In case I need to clear my head of the main story and dick around with stuff that won't necessarily find its way in. Like, say, flashback stuff looking at other characters, or remixes of chapters done from someone else's perspective? More humor, less humor. Go on, go mad, give me some thing chew on.

With the Escape From Manehattan portion of this thing published and out there, I am diving into the next five chapters. Hope to make it a good few for you folks who bother to read this. The chapters are still in loose skeleton form right now, but they are essentially plotted.

Here are the titles for the next five chapters for anyone interested. I hope some of you have picked up on my title convention by now.

6: Accidentally Like a Martyr
7: Telegraph Road

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Well, I have done it. I have decided to make one of those Ask "_________" thingies over at tumblr. If you have the need to ask, talk, mock, or verbally abuse any of the cast of characters in Salvage, go right on over there to do so. I need something to put there.

Visit it at: Ask Curtain Call