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Well if you're reading TG Techie, (and if you are, thank you. You should comment more though) for the techie stuff, I'm so sorry but it's still coming. Aisling as a character is almost defined enough to move into it. Just three more chapters, and the stuff starts on the fourth. So two weeks out.
If you've been following my blogging, you know that I'm writing this while I take a break from 11th Sun. I'm letting it cool before I work on the third draft. The community response has been more enthusiastic with TG Techie, but sci-fi noir is a niche inside a niche inside a niche. I'm not worried about that.
11th Sun is only posted about 2/5ths of the way on this site (the first draft is complete on other sites but I won't tell you where, because the first draft is bad). I'm not planning to post the third draft at all. It will resume once a week postings when I'm done posting TG Techie. (That's the plan right now anyway.) But I crave attention and feedback, and I'm a shameless comment whore.
Here's the good news for you. I'm posting 2,000 word chapters of TG Techie twice a week, while I write 2,000 words a day. From the chapter I just posted, I have 14 more written, right now. So I have a LOT of content to share with you. I was anticipating 60,000 words, but I already have 45,000 and I'm not even to Friday of her first week of school. We have a long way to go until she grows a dick and stuff (if that's what your reading for. I told you it would get weird.).
So I'm looking at 100k now as the target, and when I get to a place I can finish I'll stop, and it'll be time to revise 11th Sun again. But by that time you'll only be in the second act of TG Techie, and I'll still be posting.
To long/Didn't read: I have content to post and I'm still making more. If you like my work (seriously, comment more) then there will be a lot more to come.
Comments
I am one
of those people who try to comment often. It is my way of saying thank you.
T.T
Yet your lack of comments on my work makes me sad inside. With tears and stuff.
This is great news
I am really enjoying the story, and very much like aisling and her mom, as original and cool people I would like to know. Am in no hurry for the techie stuff. I had totally forgotten about the seven sexes bit - probably just didn't make sense of it as an early teenager, will have to read 5 again
Techie stuff?
I feel like I am missing something, is this story part of another story arc?
The reference to “Techie stuff” has me lost.
Theater Technicians
Techies are theater technicians. The crew part of "cast and crew". The unsung heroes of theater. They're the ones who build the sets, who hang and set the lights, who run the sound. They're the people on the stage who are the line of communication with the actors. Who run set changes. Who make sure that the stage is lit and the actors can be heard in the back. The ones who keep the cast from tripping over themselves in the dark. The ones who make sure they hit their marks.
It's a culture build around strong muscles, technical knowledge, serving the show; not serving themselves. Around always having a folding knife and a flashlight on your person, wearing black clothes and black boots. It's about getting up at noon, strong coffee, and questionable lifestyle choices.
You don't choose theater tech. Tech chooses you.
As it has chosen Aisling