Just posted the latest chapter of "The Dusk Descending, Book Two" to ff.net. I haven't given up on this story yet! :-)

Why do I have the urge to break out every five minutes into full-scale, movie-musical song?


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Getting ready to put up the beginning of Book II of "The Dusk Descending," but first I have to go back and fix all the mind-bogglingly stupid formatting errors that FF.net in their infinite wisdom introduced some time ago. That means completely re-uploading all forty chapters of Book I. (Eventually I'll fix all my other stories--about sixty ( Read more... )

Hitting the "Complete" button over at ff.net last night was a very strange feeling, indeed ( Read more... )

Historical footnotes for "The Dusk Descending," Chapters XXV-XL. Divided by chapter.

Please read the story before the footnotes, as there will (naturally) be spoilers.

Footnotes for Chapters XV-XXIV.
Footnotes for Chapters I-XIV.

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Tons of new updates on No. 9 Duane Street in the last three days (I've just uploaded another set), and I'm still not done yet ( Read more... )

I've just added a new lodging house profile to the No. 9 site ( Read more... )

I've finally finished coding No. 9 Duane Street yet again. Almost all are behind-the-scenes changes. Even though my last major overhaul converted the entire site to CSS, there was still a lot of inefficient coding, plus the formatting went all wonky in IE at certain resolutions. I wiped about half the code and re-built it from the start.

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My eyes started aching after I'd spent all day putting together patterns for my dragons, so I took a break and moved on to something that caused no eyestrain at all.

Oh, I kid! It's eyestrain city all around!

Anyway, following up on my Brooklyn Bridge one, Newsies gets a turn at the snowflakes, and Jack and David manage to sneak their way in.


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I just finished overhauling all the pages on No. 9 Duane Street. It won't look very much different; the most visible changes are the improved page headers, the re-organization of the table of contents, and the fact that the main body of text no longer stretches across the entire page and is now easier to read ( Read more... )