Tower of Noobs is out in audiobook!
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2023-04-12 02:32:33 +0000 UTC View Post
Ryan Rimmel posts
Justice Part 10
10 K again, wrist feeling fine. Book will 'stop' in about 15k words, and I'll fluff certain sections for the extra 10 k as I go through it in edits. I retconnec the end of the last chapter.
Chapter 35, the retconning.
<... 2023-04-11 04:00:55 +0000 UTC View PostSword of Justice Part 9
10 K a day has defeated me. My wrist gave out, too many words. Good news is that 5k doesn't seem to bother it so I'm going to slow down over the weekend and see if I can pick back up on monday. Going to hover at 5k and see how t... 2023-04-08 04:47:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Sword of Justice Part 8
Day 8 of the 10k a day challenge. The mind is willing but the flesh is weak. Lefty, the hand I use for all my T's and Q's is starting to cramp up. Going to muscle through tomorrow. Note, I'm an author in editing, which tra... 2023-04-07 04:53:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Sword of Justice 7
Okay, I was feeling it so there are some good 2023-04-06 03:39:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Sword of Justice Part 6
Chapter 21: The Break In (minor updates)
2023-04-05 02:16:51 +0000 UTC View PostSword of Justice 5
Notes: I'm still feeling out Tim, so he's goin 2023-04-04 03:43:17 +0000 UTC View Post
So what's up with the sword of justice
Or, why aren't you working on noobtown?
Writer's block mainly. I have a beginning (done), a middle (done, and an end (working on it) but the connective tissues between the middle and the end were annoying the crap out of me so I slowed...
2023-04-02 22:10:22 +0000 UTC View PostSword of Justice Part 4
Chapter 15: Another glorious town
“So t
2023-04-02 00:03:42 +0000 UTC View PostSword of Justice part 3
Chapter 11: Leaving town
“He talked?” said Nadia.
“Yup, quite cooperative when I explained the situation to him” I replied.
“You were very persuasive, it appears,” she said looking down on the orc boss who was...
2023-04-01 00:38:06 +0000 UTC View PostSword of Justice Part 2
Chapter 7: The Crypts
“So no bucket,” I offered looking back down into the crypt.
“You will find that improperly tailored armor is more of a hindrance than a help,” said Justice as I checked the surrounding area then went bac...
2023-03-31 12:42:12 +0000 UTC View PostSword of Justice candidate one
Thoughts?
Chapter 1: The beginning
“Thanks Tim.”
“No problem, John,” I offered, setting the box down and taking a moment to breath. John’s grandfather seemed to only have heavy boxes left and John’s m...
2023-03-30 05:04:26 +0000 UTC View PostAnd onto the next
Back to noobtown and I'm getting the notes together for a new book. Noobtown has crossed the 120k word spot and is moving closer to the 150k or so I typically do for a noobtown story. I've got the false finale setup, now all I need to ...
2023-03-26 22:42:58 +0000 UTC View PostFifth Era Apocalypse 1: One Bad Roll is live!
My latest book! Fifth Era Apocalypse 1: One Bad Roll
One bad roll catapults a group of friends into a new world...
Five friends gather for their usual game night like they have hundreds of time before. But when they use a stra...
Back to Noobtown
Glory to Badgelor, my favorite little rabid snacker. He's always fun to write for, especially when I get to have him suplex something. Of course, Kaiju Badgelor's suplexes are world shaking, but that's what you get in the 8th book in a...
2023-03-19 22:53:41 +0000 UTC View PostFifth Era 2 in Edits
So I submitted the first draft of fifth era over to Aethon's editor. She loved it, of course, but also finished the edits in like 3 days meaning I'm supposed to get back to it and work on it.
So I'm bouncing over there for a bit...
2023-03-12 23:03:49 +0000 UTC View PostCracking 100k
So eventually you have to reread everything to get it back on track and then you do and everything starts getting better. Jim and Charles are having a polite discussion about the merits of physics as applied to ones skull, Shart is drinking ...
2023-03-05 23:48:01 +0000 UTC View PostBook 8 continues
I was hoping to crack 100k words this week, but it looks like that's next week's goal. I've managed to get a number of key scenes tightened down and added a bunch of content in the middle to setup the third act of this book though.
I t...
2023-02-26 23:42:06 +0000 UTC View PostMid Book revision
So about half way to two thirds of the way through my books i typically realize that I botched something earlier. I missed a plot point, or I came up with something that expanded my outline and feel like exploring it. Then I have to go...
2023-02-19 23:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostWriting Noobtown 8
I write for scenes. I have glorious scenes plotted out in my head, and everything is just moving towards or away from that point. This week I got to write the scene for one of the characters I plotted out when I introduced them as one ...
2023-02-12 23:59:10 +0000 UTC View PostCRABBY 2: Incursion City
Who wants crabs?!
Sir Crabby McCrabbington, Lord of the Coast and High Crab of the Realm, thought he had escaped the dungeon...
Only to enter claw first into a wider conflict. Unknown to the rest of the Arthos, the du...
Update for this week
Noobtown 8 progressed through the start and middle of the second Act. I'm setting the stage for the final action of this arc of the story and so far it is shaping up to be quite impressive.
Right now I'm mainly waiting for several scen...
2023-02-05 23:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostNoobtown 8 progress
So I am a big fan of the 3 act structure and Noobtown is broken into 3 acts. The first act is done (99% unless I see something neat to add) and then there are the other two acts.
I'm working on act 2 presently and am about 20% d...
2023-01-29 23:52:00 +0000 UTC View PostSueLeeta’s Interesting Day Part 1 (Between Mayor and Village)
(So turns out writing a single 5k story is not what I do. I'm going to write a SueLeeta short story with something like 3-5 chapters interspersed with HATS. I do like discovering new things about my characters, and SueLeeta is no diffe...
2023-01-22 23:53:09 +0000 UTC View PostNo Chapter This week
So I reviewed my manuscript for Fifth Era Number 2, in preparation for sending it off to the editors for over 30 hours last week. Always a good, if really boring and time consuming, time. Turns out I have two basic modes, which is edit...
2023-01-15 23:49:26 +0000 UTC View PostBashara’s Uneventful Visit Part 2.
(I like Bashara, always have. This story explains a bit of her backstory. )
“Get off of me,” growled Bashara as she left the moron there and tried to reconcile what just happened in the Golden Badger’s dining hall. Somehow,...
2023-01-09 00:03:00 +0000 UTC View PostHammer and the Sword Chapter 1 Duty (20 years BJ)
(Another HATS chapter this week)
“So what do you think your reign name will be?”
“You can’t be serious?”
“I don’t know, you hardly seem the traditional type. You could keep your current name?”
“Har...
2023-01-01 21:20:53 +0000 UTC View PostHammer and the Sword, Prologue
I'd like to wish everyone a happy Grebthar's day, and Christmas too for that matter. Make sure your badger traps are carefully laid out and keep your fridge under observation. Any missing food can always be attributed to Badgelor this ...
2022-12-26 00:10:46 +0000 UTC View PostTower of Noobs Audio release date
Good news, I have the release date. April 11, 2023! You heard it here first.
2022-12-16 03:12:43 +0000 UTC View PostTower of Noobs Purge
As per my Kindle Unlimited contract, all copies of Tower of Noobs have been removed from my Pateron. Out of my hands, sorry. I'll resume posting something in the near future, maybe some chapters of my new book or some Noobtown Short St...
2022-12-09 15:40:26 +0000 UTC View Post