Mayor of Noobtown

 How I write Every author has their own style, but I generally do add days and revision days.   Add day, I push the story forward.  I usually write by scene so I don't break up my mojo unless the scene is not working and then I stop so I don't commit a bunch of bad words to paper.  Once the words are on paper, they tend to stay there because you build on them so change becomes difficult.   On a revision day, I just go back through my story and reread it adding in all the good stuff.  Jim is terribly dry in my first draft.  Shart doesn't say much more than an occasional dum dum.  Badgelor says a whole lot of 'angry badger comment' until I sit down and actually go through the dialogue.   That's generally all there is to it to get the first draft done.  I typically add around 2k words a day when I have time to write, and average about 40k words a month so far for book 5. On days I can't do 2k words, I do 1k words.  On da...

Book 4 and Cliffhangers So I learned a lesson releasing Book 4, people do not like cliffhangers.  It was the finish of the first arc of Jim's story, so I figured I could get away with one.  I figured wrong.  Oh well, I'll just have to avoid them in the future.   Onward to book 5 and my oft-forgotten Blog.  I seriously need to update this thing more.  In any case, I'm busy charging through book 5, tentatively titled Noob Game Plus.  I had written myself into an overpowered corner of the universe with Jim's ability to take levels in any class.  As an exercise, I wrote a rough draft of the final battle and I was going full DBZ to make it work, which wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.   So I've fixed it with the 60 level cap.  That means that Jim's total level can't exceed 60.  If only there were ways to cheat or a demon who knew all the rules and how to break them.  The results have been very interesting so far with lot...