Jonathan's Scrivenings

Progress has been slow this past month, but there has been progress. Mostly what I have been doing is expanding my outline from what was sometimes just a sentence or two, fleshing each out to sometimes as much as several hundred words. Book one (The Pyongyang Incursion) has its outline completely done, although I am sure there will be further revisions to it as I work on the other two book outlines. Currently the outline stands at over 2400 words across twenty different outline points, and I am overall pretty pleased with how it's shaping up, the overall story arc is much tighter and I was able to trim some fat off some points and add other points to keep the story moving along at a good pace. Book two (The Vladivostok Penetration) has most of the summary written but only three outline points, while book three (The Berlin Infiltration) has one lonely little outline point and no summary written. The summaries for the overall series background has been expanded a little bit more,...

I haven't been doing much writing in the last couple years, I have mostly been working on other side projects. One of the problems with being somewhat absent minded and prone to chase rabbit trails ;) I have been pleased to see a handful of people downloading Rise to Revolt from Kobo and I even got a couple more star ratings for it, its sitting at 4 out of 5 stars with three total ratings. Kobo tells me that it has been downloaded about 20 times, although I seem to remember seeing something about that number possibly being inaccurate due to Kobo having a bug of some sort a while ago that interfered with counting free downloads. Is 20 free downloads and three ratings anything to get excited about? Well for me, it certainly feels good to know that 20 people tried to read my first book, and none of them hated it enough to send me nasty emails or leave a bad review. For a complete unknown's first work, one that was deliberately published on a very small platform that reaches a ...