When I completed the first draft of Book 1 of this series in the Spring of 2018, I immediately sent it in ebook form to a couple of dozen friends. That was a mistake. It was a mistake for 2 reasons: 1. Friends are not the correct people to ask to be reviewers. They often are unwilling to tell you what you need to hear (one lady friend flat-out refused to review it, her comment […]
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One of the great weaknesses that Rupert Ramsgate has is a procrastination gene. (Along with a packrat gene). This results in extended gestation periods for any projects. Books of Loukas first appeared in nascent form as a sketch 6 years ago. It finally coalesced to a book series 5 years ago, and a draft book was created in the Spring of 2018. Since then, a lot of things have happened, including Covid-19, and progress has
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The last in the current series of podcasts took place a week or so ago, when Joanna Love Jett showed up again at Rupert’s locale, and questioned him on a variety of writing-related subjects. Rupert, despite being a shy, withdrawn, tongue-tied individual, responded quite well. So well, in fact, that the Director got out the digital scissors and excised some twaddle, in the interests of brevity and not creating a cure for insomnia. (No, the
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I updated all of my current working projects, both fiction and non-fiction, to Scrivener 3 a few months ago. Scrivener 3 for Windows is more than just an update to Scrivener 1. It is an almost complete re-write in several areas, primarily in the area of the Compiler, which is the engine that assembles a document, ebook or other artifact from all or portions of one or multiple Scrivener projects. Like most conversion processes, the
Guest interviewer Joanna Love Jett stopped by Rupert’s abode 2 weeks ago and interviewed Rupert at length (and we all know the importance of length) for two podcasts. The sound quality on these podcasts is not the best. I had a level issue with microphones that led to a certain amount of distortion on my audio. I have tried to reduce it as much as possible in post-processing and editing, but there is still some
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