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Fifth draft (top) vs. final draft (bottom.)

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Geister-Western #13 

By Rafael Lopez Espi

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This new-to-the-final-draft sentence brought to you by Jamie going back to edit Book 1 after finishing Book 2.

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Emanation of the unseen.

Yaghrib 2022.

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WIP by Maria Kemwer (Atenebris) on Instagram

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Fuck yeah found a picture of Fort Leavenworth (aka Fort Sarras in DMLS's shittier alt-history setting) from the year Sullivan and Hofer rolled into town.

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Nacht im Moor

illustration from Jugend #15, 1896

František Kozics (1864-1900)

Didn't need to sleep anyway.

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Bogusz Jan Szulc

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Antique 19th century syringe kits.

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And since I just realized I never answered the question, I'll make this addendum as I'm reblogging:

Royston thinks anything that isn't a horse is an excellent form of transportation, and he is going to be super fucking annoying about the clockwork engine thing. I think it goes without saying he wants to fuck Sullivan in the patent-motorwagen.

What would Royston think of vehicles?

@wyked-rebellion! Hello again! I need to show you some shit I found while researching my answer.

This is a car propelled by clockwork engine. It was built by Hans Hautsch in 1649.

Ferdinand Verbiest one-upped him in 1672. That's a steam-powered vehicle. It was only 26 inches long so it couldn't carry drivers or do anything cool, but still, he had AN IDEA.

A German dude named Karl Benz unleashed this baddie in 1885:

That is a Benz Patent-Motorwagen. It had a one-liter, single-cylinder engine, and it whipped ass.

Since Sullivan is busting both his and my asses for the sake of getting a happy ending when this was supposed to be a fucking horror story, I've decided they get to live another forty years after DMLS is over. They're definitely still alive in 1885 when the Germans drop the modern automobile on Europe.

... maybe I'll write some smut about it.

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Skull Wearing a Wreath of Flowers, Thomas Satterwhite Noble, circa. 1874

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im a blorbo apologist but also they did every bad thing they did and i will get mad if u ignore that. complexities

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Willow sculpture by Trevor Leat

http://www.trevorleat.co.uk/

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Abyss by Ivan Palma

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Sorry, screen readers. This post is referencing an image.

Continuing to ignore main-blog hiatus with a shitty book cover mockup.

I need to do more market research before I land on a background color (Weird Westerns tend to be red or black; even though half the title are the words "love story," I am not marketing this to horror romance readers even though it is technically horror/romance.) Also not thrilled with the title. There's three books, but they don't have their own subtitles. If the series is called Doom Metal Love Story, each individual novel needs its own title. So I need to cook some more.

It's a start. I've never designed a book cover before, I don't have the slightest idea what the hell I'm supposed to be doing.

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things are happening.

I may be on hiatus on main but I can do what I want on the side blog right?

User does not know how either Tumblr or hiatuses work. User also apologizes to people using screen readers--there is a screenshot of his file organization that he will be referencing throughout this post.

What This Is

This is the sidebar in Obsidian, which is the program I use for plotting and drafting my obnoxiously long stories.

It allows me to use Markdown to link between files, which helps me when I'm plotting out a novel with a time loop and have no idea what impact a decision made in Book 1 could potentially have in Book 3.

I have A Vision that I can write a final draft in Markdown and then use the Markdown to build a PDF which I then use to make an EPUB. Hypothetically, I'll then be able to sort out what the dimensions of Book 1 are going to be so I can get rolling on Draft2Digital, which I've decided to use because I don't want to go with Amazon. I'm sure there's an easier way to do what I'm trying to do but I can't follow instructions when I'm burnt out so I'm figuring it out myself.

Why I'm Making a Whole Post About It

All three books have either a DRAFT or a PLOT MAP folder in Obsidian.

When I start working on the interactive fiction novel, I will be using Obsidian to map out each scene because I can link files together to create a map. It was screwing around with the IF novel structure that kicked me in the ass to write a summary for Book 3--I can't make an IF based on a trilogy if the trilogy doesn't have an ending. But since I didn't write Book 1 with it being a trilogy in mind, it doesn't have a plot map. Yet. It's my guinea pig for testing my "Can I use Markdown to self-publish" hypothesis.

Anyway

Under DRAFTS -> BOOK 3 ZERO DRAFT, there's a file I've helpfully titled "vague outline," along with the current month and the word count of the file.

When I opened the file last night I was like "Teehee I'll just make some bullet points and then go back to writing fanfiction that will embarrass 50-year-old me."

THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED.

I wrote a whole-ass plot summary. The entire third book. It has a beginning middle and end. I figured out how to handle the time loop reset. I am able to break it into five-act structure like I have the last two books + the post-canon novella I'm plugging away at.

When I tell you I want to drop what I'm doing to go write it. I need to know what happens next. It's been 16 months I have no fucking clue how Sullivan stops Powell.

So yeah. That's what I've been doing during my hiatus.

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