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Post by Not Wes on Sept 7, 2021 11:21:31 GMT -5
The editor has been lazy and progress is slow. I don't foresee posting starting before the end of the year, but it's possible. I'll update here when there is other news to impart, or otherwise as I can.
Not Wes
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Post by Howard on Jan 11, 2022 7:10:46 GMT -5
Hi. Is there any news on this new story? (this is a polite request for any information that may perchance be available, and not meant to be nagging in any way)
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Post by Not Wes on Jan 11, 2022 13:00:03 GMT -5
Howard,
Not really any good news yet. It turns out that we've been working on an incomplete copy of the story (missing edits and additions and deletions) and didn't discover this until about a month ago. I've basically started over, but it's slowed progress significantly. This is really no one's fault (though everyone's misfortune), just a misunderstanding when the full story was compiled from the wrong batch of individual chapter edits (lack thereof). If we see a book release before spring, I'll be surprised. Sorry about that. No offense to others, but I don't see how anyone else can help with this at this point. I'll get back on it again and see what I can do, hopefully continuing to transfer some of the work already done to the new copy. We'd only really worked on the first 9 chapters of less than 30.
We'll probably lose some readers out of this, but that's the breaks.
Not Wes
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Post by Colin on Jan 12, 2022 4:53:30 GMT -5
Not Wes,
Thanks for the update.
Not a nag, but might it be worth updating the front page on the main site?
Colin
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Post by ian_macf on Mar 1, 2022 23:34:51 GMT -5
How is the editing coming along ? Any forecast on release date ?
Ian
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Post by weasalopes on Mar 29, 2022 19:32:04 GMT -5
Oof!
Not the kind of thing you want to have happen, you pretty much have to start from scratch on the edits once this kind of thing is unearthed.
Since, hey, the stuff you did have access to might not have been a final Wes version, any of it.
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Post by boydpercy on Apr 2, 2022 12:52:46 GMT -5
Oof!
Not the kind of thing you want to have happen, you pretty much have to start from scratch on the edits once this kind of thing is unearthed.
Since, hey, the stuff you did have access to might not have been a final Wes version, any of it.
weasalopes, what are you talking about in your post of Mar 29 2022? I asked notwes and he wasn't sure either!
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Post by weasalopes on Apr 3, 2022 10:13:14 GMT -5
Oof! Not the kind of thing you want to have happen, you pretty much have to start from scratch on the edits once this kind of thing is unearthed. Since, hey, the stuff you did have access to might not have been a final Wes version, any of it. weasalopes, what are you talking about in your post of Mar 29 2022? I asked notwes and he wasn't sure either! The third post describing what went down, duh! Editing an incomplete copy. Upon learning it was an incomplete copy, having to basically start over from scratch since there'd be no way of knowing what hadn't been changed between the copy previously edited and the actual current doc; the incomplete version was a snapshot of the work-in-progress, editing it produces a different document tree than that resulting in Wes' final document, so you can't blindly replace the chapters in the Wes' final doc with the edited chapters from the incomplete version, as there could be changes made since the snapshot was taken that matter. So much of what was done initially is totally wasted effort. As I said, not the kind of thing you want to have happen. |
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Post by ian_macf on Apr 7, 2022 0:40:34 GMT -5
In this case, there are NO documents originating from Wes, since the book is from a new author.
Ian
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Post by weasalopes on Apr 7, 2022 13:41:40 GMT -5
In this case, there are NO documents originating from Wes, since the book is from a new author. Ian Fine. Replace author references, the rest is still valid, OK? (And my initial post didn't mention any names; when replying while frustrated due to wondering how the heck someone couldn't grasp what the post related to, on the other hand... errors creep in when not of calm mind.) You have an incomplete not final draft, edit it, discover there is a more recent complete version, there is the possibility that none of your edits are still relevant, and that changes occurred in those sections since the version you edited was created that need checking. Which is not something you want to have happen to you. Any disagreement with that? If not, can we drop this? |
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Post by ian_macf on May 7, 2022 3:21:33 GMT -5
As I said a couple of months ago
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How is the editing coming along ? Any forecast on release date ?
Ian
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Post by boydpercy on May 7, 2022 23:59:22 GMT -5
Not Wes is currently on vacation! He should be back in the next week or so. I will urge him to answer your request.
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Post by Andrew on May 16, 2022 13:18:59 GMT -5
"Under Prairie Skies likely not ready before year end" was not a good headline, I had to look at timestamps before I realised that the year in question was 2021.
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Post by ian_macf on Jun 3, 2022 4:02:31 GMT -5
Starting to look like it'll be year end 2022
Ian
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Post by Not Wes on Jun 4, 2022 14:52:44 GMT -5
Starting to look like it'll be year end 2022 Ian Ian, Sorry to say but you might be close. I'm working on it again, back from canoeing and hiking around in southern Utah, but it is not going quickly. I get discouraged myself over how slowly it's going, and that doesn't help. The original draft of the story is in pretty sad shape, and Bill seems no longer in any condition to help much with it, so it's up to me and some other proofers after I can work a readable story out of it. I'm sorry, but it's gonna be a while. No way I can predict a release date. Check in once in a while and see what's happening. Not Wes |
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