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First Update of 2026! (Patreon)

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2026-01-09 19:00:25
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2026-11
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Hey everyone,

Thanks for being here and reading. Hope December treated you well, and if you celebrate holidays this time of year, I hope you were less sick than my family was. (Hint: it's not a hard record to beat... ugh.)

Now that we're in the new year, I've been head-down writing as much as possible. Like, enough that my hands are cramping while typing. Fun times.

Several Aethon authors suggested I try dictation last year, and I've been dabbling with it. Turns out swapping from typing to speaking is hard. My brain doesn't work the same way when I'm talking versus typing, and the transition is rough. But I'm experimenting: dictation, timers, different writing methods—all to figure out what actually makes chapters happen faster without breaking my wrists or my brain.

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Path of the Paladin Book 1: Edited, proofed, and the audiobook is being recorded by Gary Tiedemann. Once Book 2 is done (hopefully in a month or two) and that process starts, I imagine Book 1 will release shortly after. I'll make sure a stubbing message goes out well in advance so nobody panics.

Path of the Paladin Book 2: Currently sitting at 70% complete. It was roughly 65% when I started Rivera's Repairs, but I've spent time rewriting and editing large chunks of it, too. The chapters posting this week (28 and 29) didn't even exist in the original draft. I'm approaching writing the climax in the second half, and I'm genuinely excited for you to see where it goes. Posts of Runeforged Realms will continue until we wrap Book 3 and figure out what happens next.

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Rivera's Repairs: I finally found a good pulp fiction cover artist and snapped him up as fast as I could. New cover incoming. I'll have more to share soon, but I'm really excited about it.

Rivera's Repairs Issue #3: With issue #2 wrapping up posting soon. I may need a bit of time to get the next issue polished, but there shouldn't be much of an interruption between Issue #2 and Issue #3.

The lower posting frequency is starting to feel sustainable, so thank you for bearing with me on that. I'll have more exciting things to share as the year progresses.

Cheers,

M.S. Davidson

Comments

Raymond Alderman

was unaware going for a pulp fiction look on the Rivera's Repairs cover. Looking forward to seeing that.

Dovos

Happy new year 🎊 Dictating works for outlying the story but not for the final text. The spoken words structure is just too different to how we write. Let alone that it can't format the text correctly and it's likely more work to edit and rewrite the errors it made than to write it (mostly) correctly the first time. I find that the feeling of your keyboard matters a lot. Split keyboards help if you get wrist pain as they provide a better angle that your arms are towards it but don't buy ones with alternative layouts. It isn't worth to learn and makes it even worse to write on normal keyboards. If you have quite a lot of dexterity in your fingers, you might want to look into characorder. But be warned. Tho you can reach "300+ wpm" with them, it is super hard to learn and your timing, movement and tact between your fingers needs to be near perfect. So if you have issues with finger dexterity, it is wasted money. One last thing is also that you need key caps that feel right for you. For some the hand cramp up because they don't move deep enough or not easy enough or the opposite. They cramp because they move too easy and too far and the finger cramps as it takes too much effort to go back up because the key isn't providing any push/springback up. Sadly there isn't a silver bullet and for some a cheap $20 keyboard is better than any $300+ one.

M.S. Davidson

This is what I've found too. Dictation's not easy and gets things wrong more than it gets right. I have a VERY nice keyboard that my wife bought me for Christmas a year ago which super light keys and ergonomics and it helps. This is just 20+ years of PC gaming coming back to haunt me.

bart

is typing a bottleneck when writing a story? I now it isn't when writing code I'd expect the same to be true when writing a story