Issue 022, Archived
Hello, Welcome to The Newb Files, Issue 022, Archived. Merry spring! News
The draft of Zombies, a Novel is done: The word count has gone from 74700 words on December 14, 2022 to drumroll please 93000+/- as of March 14, 2023, when I gave it to my wife to read on her Kindle. Below is the post that I made on the diymfa.com (graduate of the spring 2020 on-line course) facebook page several days later. Complete with mistakes in grammar, and punctuation, my wife felt she shouldn't fix because it's a quote.
"After over three years of work, someone else has read my novel. My wife, after getting over the horror of "draft" grammar and punctuation, loved it.
Wednesday afternoon when she was reading it, a delivery guy rang our doorbell, and she almost jumped out of her chair. After several minutes, her heart stopped pounding and returned to normal.
I admit that grammar and punctuation are my weak points. But, I have a list of seven very minor issues to fix in a 93k novel. Pretty good. There will be more fixes, and polishing over and above the grammar and punctuation to come.
It is a weird yet wonderful feeling."
Other NewsScream and Leapt: My first short story is going to be rewritten. ... I have decided to make some extensive changes, including expanding it to novella length (20k +/-). I am currently laying it out in Snowflake Pro before importing it into Plottr. Zombies, a Novel Draft 1.2: has been completed, printed, and also put on an old Kobo for my sister to read. In a month or so, I will read the hard copy, revise as required, and look at getting some Beta readers. Space and War: I will continue plotting Space and War (working title) in Plottr, soon.
Beta Readers for "Zombies, a Novel"Beta reading is closed for "Zombies a Novel".
Random Things on My Office Walls
In my misspent youth, I designed a couple dozen power boats. This is the last one I did, about 24 feet (7.3m+/-) long as I remember. It could go like a bat out of proverbial hell, but its actual job was to go slowly in a straight line while taking depth measurements of the water. It had a bow-thruster that helped it do that at slow speed, and that shot two jets of water out from the bow every time it hit a wave at speed. Ahh, youth.
Book ReviewsStarship Troopersby Robert A. Heinlein
I read this the first time when I was a teenager and had just started reading science fiction. It was one of the few books I stopped reading. Something I almost never did way back when. I tried again a couple years ago when it was recommended that I read it for the military lingo. It was familiar, and painful, to read until I got past where I had stopped the first time. Then, it was just painful. Bad writing, stilted phrasing, and epic "Stephen King—class" nothing happening combine to make for a truly tortuous read. It is so bad; I don t know how it got published, never mind became a classic. You have been warned. NOT recommended.
NOTE:A short issue this time, as I am working at writing fiction. Weird or what?
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That's all for now! Thanks, Eric C Bailey, April 14, 2023
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