Mayor of Noobtown

 Noobtown 5 Draft Status The editor is chomping at it.  I'm taking a second pass at a few scenes that I didn't much care for after I got finished with them.  Everything is progressing well.  Right now we are up to 125k words and I'm liking Jim's journey in this story.   The Final Battle is not up to snuff.  I wrote it and thought when I did, this isn't great but I can fix it.  I can't fix it.  It's just badly paced.  I'm going to have to pluck out huge chunks of it and turn it into something great.  The sad thing is that I think it would hold up normally, but I have 2 really good battle scenes in the book so far and it's only bad compared to them.   Another thing that's different is that I'm going for action all the time in this book.  Instead of a wordy beginning followed by compressing the action into a few dense chapters, Noob Town Plus is far more action-oriented throughout, plus I have about as much character dia...

 Noob Town Plus, the first draft is done.   It's a dry tale about Jim traveling the world to get back to Windfall.  I should probably add in a few jokes.  It currently sits at 115k words, but I'll add in several thousand words during the editing process as I wonder what Past Ryan was thinking (that man is crazy).   Wrote it in Scriverly, which was nice but I'm not sure I'm going to use it again.  It made organizing the book far easier, but I was used to writing it differently and I think that might have slightly changed the tone of the book.   My alpha readers like the plot progression and don't see any glaring problems with the book, so that's a plus. (Looking back at you Castle).  Overall, I think this one is going to be a winner, but its still a long way from done.