The Saturday Post (Patreon)

July 3rd edition

I am hoping now that my life has settled down I can start posting more often, even if it is only to say I am alive :)

The surgery went quite well for mom, she can walk now and is recovering nicely. the largest hurdle this past month was to get her off of the narcotic painkillers the doctors put her on. It doesn't take long for a one hundred pound woman, soaking wet, to get hooked on those things. But without them she screamed in pain at the slightest movement, so a tradeoff of sorts I suppose.

because of time constraints I had posted chapters of non fanfiction stories along with fan fiction stories once a month. I now intend to split them up so you will still get chapters, but they will come a couple of weeks apart. Window dressing I know, but I am hoping for more post counts during a month :) Plus in the beginning that is how I started.

Also now that real life has given me a break I can finalize the cover for Death God book 5 so I can release it. that has been the hold up, but life had just not given me several full days to work on the cover art. I plan to rectify that this weekend.

I also this weekend need to go through and create a list of what chapters I have posted, I know I have a few more from other stories besides Rise of Azkaban, but as I had lost track I have just been looking at the last post and posting the next chapter. So even if I don't have a chapter of one of my original works ready to go you should be able to get a chapter of one of my fanfic works in its place.

And I will finish with a thought on writing.

This weeks topic fanfiction and why so many get upset with it.

My views on fanfiction and the way I write means that during the very first chapter is where I set the point that everything that happened in the series or show stops. at that point everything in canon is the same but that point diverges everything and the reader needs to forget everything else released by the author or show writers.

I think that is the biggest mob complaining point. "Well in book six Harry did this so he wouldn't do what you wrote." and my reply to that is, my story started in year 3 right after [insert event here] and at that point the rest of the books can be thrown out as they never happened or will happen. That is the point of Fanfiction. And people can not or will not suspend what they know from reading the series and enjoy anything that does not at least follow canon. Which is just sad.