I have decided to push back the proofreading for Volume 2 by another two chapters. One due to the next chapter being a special case I am obligated to get out and secondly since I don't want to keep the readers waiting for the resolution involving the Starlight Glimmer subplot.
I'm afraid that I have made a discovery about the printing process of Lulu that has me concerned for this project.
After properly scaling the first volume's word document into a PDF, I have found that the word count will exceed the maximum limit of a book to be printed on Lulu.com. This will require the first volume to be split into two books, and this will only grow with later volumes as they are longer.
For those of you who have read The Lost Element series (warning, contains NSFW material, though it's fairly sparse), it's more than likely that you know its author, Humanity.
Proofreading for Volume 2 is nearly complete. However, I recall shortly after making Volume 1 available in printed form that some readers had difficulty discerning where chapters ended and the next began despite the titles of each chapter being front and center at the top of the page.
What can I do to fix this problem? Increase the size of the title text? Bolden the text? Underline it?
If anyone can clear this up for me, I will appreciate it.
I have found while proofreading Volume 2 that after editing the text and adding more where needed, I find that the word count is smaller than it was before by several hundred words. And it even seems to apply with chapters before I swap out the old text for the new.
Proofreading Volume 2 has made me develop a newfound appreciation for how far I have come in terms of the quality of my writing. A big part of why editing it has been such a slog is how much harder it is to have to read through chapters that are not quite up to snuff with what I've been churning out in recent years. To quote Ben Yahtzee Croshaw...
"99% of all creators loathe everything they made more than 5 years ago and the remaining 1% are liars!"
It took quite some time, but I am happy to announce that the second volume of The Lost Element is now available for purchase on Lulu.com in three parts.
I am very pleased with the end result of this one. Page numbers are present and the title text is large and underlined. I feel its an appropriate step up from the more bare bones result of the first volume. To everyone who has supported me for so long, thank you. I hope you all enjoy the end result of this pet project.
The prequel to The Lost Element is now available on Lulu. Very small, barely more than 50 pages. I was very surprised by how thin the proof copy is. A little special something for all my readers.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/ashton-crimson/before-time-began-to-flow/paperback/product-24082567.html
The previous chapter of The Lost Element was finished back in November. Half a year later and I am only half done or so with proofreading Volume 2. I never expected the process to be this tedious and time consuming.
I have no desire to wait a full year to update the story, so once I finish proofreading the current chapter, I will take a break to write the next chapter to hopefully give myself a refreshing change of pace.
While things have not entirely gone back to normal yet, I've decided I am not going to wait any longer and have begun seeking out means to help me find environments suited for creative writing. The next chapter is finally in development and I hope to have it out before long.
With the most recent chapter having been finished, I am now preparing Volume 2 for printing. The Lost Element will be on hiatus until the second volume of the story has being fully proofread and been made available of Lulu.com. As always, I appreciate everyone's support and feedback on my work. It is no exaggeration when I say you all are what keeps me going.
The Lost Element and its extended universe finally has its own TvTropes page for all to view.
Anyone who is savvy enough on the workings of TVTropes can add new trope examples or edit any current examples to improve them. If anyone would like to do so, but does not know how to do so, I can provide instructions on how to edit the page.
One of my readers alerted me recently that a contest for fanfiction is currently taking place on Inkitt right now and is lasting until the 29th for collecting votes for stories. After painstakingly uploading every chapter of The Lost Element to be entered, I found that a bizarre protocol in indentations prevented the story from being eligible. Instead, I entered what is currently my highest rated work, Musings of a Fallen Princess.
A recent friend and fan of my writing has started quite an ambitious project on Youtube. A channel dedicated to developing a dub for The Lost Element.
This is actually quite flattering and not something I saw coming. Feel free to check it out and support their endeavors. I'm looking forward to whatever they come up with.
With this corona virus crap happening, production of future chapters will be slowing down for a little while. Most of my writing is done out of the house, with much of it being done during my lunch breaks, and the restaurants in the area going to carry-out and delivery for a while means I won't be getting out of the house as much for a number of weeks.
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