The Marshmallow Ranch Gazette (Patreon)

Howdy, patrons!

Happy Independence Day Eve if you're in the United States, and a very merry Tuesday to all! I know I had planned for the last two serials of the audition to be posted last week, but I hit an unexpected bump in the writing. For some reason, transferring text from Google Docs (where I've been working on them so I could write little bits wherever I was) to Scrivener (where I keep and organize all of my writing) is a lot more trouble than I thought it would be.

I'm sure there's a reason for it, but text copied from Docs into Scrivener has some truly strange font -- colored maroon, underlined, and in some cases multiple lines were jumbled into one line. What's worse, the ultra-weird formatting wouldn't clear for anything. I've tried downloading the Docs file into RTF and DOC, but that hasn't worked either. There's something about the way Google encodes the text that gives Scrivener a fit.

I haven't checked the forums to see if someone else has this issue or what the possible fix is, but so far the only thing for it appears to be re-typing the serials into Scrivener manually. That's going to take a minute, and I thought I'd take the opportunity to give them a quick and dirty editing pass while I was at it. It shouldn't take too much time, but that's why I missed last week's deadline. Again, my apologies -- rest assured they're written and ready to go, though.

"Aftershocks" will be posted tomorrow, with "Crushing The Competition" up on Thursday. The poll will be up here on Friday so that all of you fine patrons have first choice; a link to it will go up through Twitter on Monday in order to give new patrons a chance to vote; and finally, the link will go up on SoFurry next Thursday after the serials are posted there. If all goes according to plan, the poll will run from 7/6 - 7/14, with the winner announced on 7/15. Regular weekly episodes should start flowing that very week!

In an effort to make sure I write ahead as much as possible, I've given myself a goal to write at least one hour every day in the month of July. There's probably no way this will happen, but striving for it should help me catch up on everything I've fallen behind on. I'd ask for you folks to wish me luck, but what I really need is discipline and dedication. So wish me that, instead. 

That's all for now, partners! I hope you have a wonderful week, and I'll see you tomorrow with the pilot for "Aftershocks".

-Jakebe