Desk of Reck: Final Edits

Hope everyone has a great weekend planned!

I'm headed off this afternoon to Paracon in Caney, KS. I'll be selling books, and listening to ghost stories. Fellow friend and author A.D. Childers will be along with me - if you haven't checked out her books, and like a good mystery, try The Switch Point - a Kansas notable book award winner in 2025! (https://www.amazon.com/Switch-Point-D-Childers/dp/B0CPQ847KV) .

Stumbling Up is in its final edits - If you see me live on discord, I've been talking through my vocal edits in prep for Richey and Jessica. I've gotten through all my editor revisions and am just doing this last round.

Will the final product be different than what you've experienced on Patreon and Royal Road? Absolutely, and that's by design. By following me here, you get the raw semi-edited first draft almost as I write it. But as story lines firm up, and I decide things like the [System] should always be in brackets, the story changes. I've gone back and added things like -- Cole packing his lucky nails when they leave Woodsten, and granting him [Slime Manipulation] earlier on, and more details about his first girlfriend, and the [Cleanse the Corruption] quest line. It's all good stuff. I'm a writer that adds when I edit for the most part.

Editing is tough because it's not the exciting part of creating. But it is necessary to grow as a writer --- my grammar is going to be a lot better in my drafts in book 2, and the details I'm tracking and story arcs too. I'm even learning a thing or two about how to end a book (Looking at you Gary).

I'm also taking a lot of notes for book 2. Did you remember that Tandy keeps her fabric scissors in an [Enchanted] bag to prevent Leo from stealing them? That Cole gained a [Feign Death] skill that I hadn't actually had him use (EVEN THOUGH he feigns death several times). Or that Richard's [Glue] slime has a blue shimmer to it?

Books are crazy, there's a hundred little details to hold onto, and a hundred more big details.

Share with me your favorite detail about Stumbling Up or one of the characters.

I'd love to hear them!!