Jason Rimbaud

If you think the stories I write/right are silly, that's on a whole new level of silliness. Though to be fair, it's not all my fault, Lee has contributed to a lot of that silliness.

Thank you, I am well on the way to mending. I am mobile! woot. And my life is returning to normal. It's a long story but needless to say, I am on the mend and back to my silly self. For all those I am grateful you have been patient. But I had a silly idea and to have things happen that I wanted to happen, I had to work out an angle on another story. So the next few chapters have been delayed first by my injury and then by me scraping an entire ending to another story and re-organizing this one. The good news, that other story will be posted by Thursday, and Gabriel Gambit will be resuming shortly, and I'm mean shortly after that. Thank you again for everyone's patience.

Okay, first I want to say thank you for everyone being so patient. Not sure if everyone knows, but I fell down and broke my foot and had to have surgery to put my ankle back together again. I was bedridden for three weeks and had a slight bout of depression. If anyone is really interested in hearing the silly details, check out my status page Wry Ramblings From A Hot Wing. Needless to say, whilst I was in recovery, I had this idea, and I scraped the entire last chapter once again. I needed to do something that would impact another story and I had to get it just write. As everyone knows, Glacier Bay is a series of shared connected world and I wanted...anyway, long story short. I finished the last chapter. I have going through a round of edits and will be posting it by this Thursday morning. FOr those of you who are wanting Gabriel's Gambit to continue, let's say I was inspired on that and we shall be posting that conclusion to that story as well. Thank you for patience and understanding. Having a major surgery kind of sent my world into a tizzy and I had to juggle a lot of things to keep my life, restaurant, and writing on some level course.

This makes so much sense. One of my stories had about 100 views per chapter and then, chapter 13 had (I don't remember exact numbers but you get the idea) labeled Christmas Present, went to over a 1000 views in a few hours. It always made me scratch my head why views per chapter average close and then suddenly a random chapter has like five times more views. So I am assuming views now are more closer to actual than previous, that helps a bunch.

I think I might have missed the survey, but I love the screenshots and I'm excited to see changes.

And I was looking at that as well since you've been talking about it the last day. I was looking at Popular stories. And you have said that elsewhere before and I just now remembered. 😳

The great wizard says we have been having issues with attacks on our servers, maybe that had something to do with it. I had issues for about five minutes thirty minutes ago.

I think everyone knows I am not very tech savy. When you say underattack, does that mean bots are trying to flood GA's servers? Or is it like hacking attempts? Jason (Not trying to derail but generally curious what that meant)

Something I did makes sense, I believe that might be a first. And I'm still batting a thousand at being unhelpful.

Here is the steps I used. And remember, I said same authors, not same stories. And don't make me feel bad cause I'm bad at tech things. Include both Comedy, Romance, General Fiction Doesn't matter Surprise Me I didn't try other genres, just those three.

I agree, the only thing I want AI to do is look for grammar issues, I don't need suggestions, or anything help making bad sentences, I can do that without AI.

Some people run it through AI to help clean it up as well. Depending on what you feel about AI influencing work.

Honestly, I tried different genres, and search parameters and the same handful of authors popped up each time no matter what options I chose. That being said, I know the new software is on the horizon (end of year anthology plug) so I'm sure other people might find it helpful. I also don't think I have a bunch of data saying what stories I like as I always forget to use that feature so its probably my lack of hitting the button.

I don't edit until I am finished with the entire story. Then when I do go back, I know where I need to add or adjust the narrative to fit the ending. I also believe heavily in re-writes. With some exceptions, most of my stories have been edited/re-written five or six times with certain chapters as many as eight. I found, for me, when going back to edit while I'm writing the story, I spend too much time worrying about a scene that might end up being cut by the time I finish. I also overwrite. I might try multiple takes at the same paragraph, one right after the other, and then worry about choosing one when I'm finished. Then there are times when I can't get the wording right or something feels off about a scene, I'll simply use a place holder IE: Man gets blown up by a goat. Then later on, during the re-write/editing stage, I'll write the scene. Everyone has different approaches and you'll find one that works for you. I'd try out many different methods until you come up with combination that works for you. But try not to edit when the work is still precious. Authors are in love with words, editors serve the story first and foremost. Two different hats, two different ways of looking at the same material. I'm sure that's not helpful but I rarely am, so there's that.

PS Cassie, this is exactly the kind of story I love.