Today I made a small (?) edit to "The Blue and the Gray". I decided to upgrade its reader rating from everyone to teen. I hope that this didn't inconvenience any of my readers out there, but I had to wonder if some of my recent use of profanity had disqualified my story from at least some of the audience out there. Yeah, I know, does anyone running this operation ever proofread this thing and catch stuff like this. Personally, I doubt it. But it felt like the right thing to do.

Having gotten the latest chapter of "The Blue and the Gray" out and into the world, I find myself turning once again to my other active story, "Danger Close". I'm thinking that I can make some progress on that over the next couple of weeks, having finally gotten a critical character a bit more sorted out. Which is a good thing, because I seem to find myself rereading a lot of my own work these days. I'm not sure why exactly, maybe I'm still just a bit surprised that I was able to produce

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I have finally moved forward on "The Blue and The Gray", though it's a big one, over 5000 words. I've never written a chapter that long before, and I have to wonder if the length will be a turnoff. I know that it has been an issue for me at times, but I really don't have an editor to help me par it down, and I have no idea if it could be shortened and keep it's meaning. So, lets see how it's received.

I'm making reasonably decent progress on two of my stories, and if I stay with it, I should be able to post something new soon. In the course of working on "The Blue and the Grey" though, I find myself with a dilemma. At the end of the last chapter, I made the choice to introduce a canon character as a potential antagonist, namely Chancellor Neighsay. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but now I realize that it has just made things more complicated. The problem is that I haven't seen most

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I'm making good progress on the next chapter of my latest story, and I expect to post it probably in a week give or take. This story has caused me to adopt a rather unusual method for writing, in that I start out on a conventional Word document, and then transfer it to the site to finish. It has the advantage of getting me away from my little laptop, and allows me to work on my story from anywhere that I can sign into. I think that the white on dark grey format that I use here on the site is

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I'm making pretty good progress on the second chapter of my story "The Blue and the Grey", but I've run into an unexpected snag, namely the title. I've never been big about the whole idea of just having chapters numbered, and I thought that it would be interesting to have the chapters of this story taken from popular song lyrics. The problem is that the one I had in mind doesn't match well with the chapter I'm currently working on. It will probably be useful later in the story, but it still

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