Bang! Zoom! It's Barsoom!

[E_T]

there is likely a wiki for it, would give you a fairly good summery, if anything...

[Buster's Uncle]

-Still reading and enjoying Pyrebound - just, haven't been in the mood to post for a while...

[Elok]

You're fine--I can see the referring link pageviews from this site.  You're one of a hundred-odd regular readers now.  Thanks for getting it so far!

[Elok]

Slowly working towards the finish of PB, considerably slowed by schoolwork and kids.  Starting to think about next work--will probably be considerably more cheerful, and closer to TCOL.  The working title is "Wild Frontier," though that sounds awful generic and I'll consider any variant on "[monosyllabic adjective] Frontier."  It's inspired by my wife reading frontier memoirs to the kids, and also watching too much Firefly.  It's on a colony world that got turned into a borderline penal colony, used to offload undesirables and reactionaries from an Earth rapidly transitioning towards trans- or posthumanism.  The colony is now an afterthought and its budget keeps getting cut, even as fresh transportees keep showing up and the local population keeps growing.  The result is an ever-expanding terraformed frontier spreading out from the capital landing zone, with the homesteaders at the periphery forming a law unto themselves.  Old world cultures smush and merge in weird ways; a North Korean pirate kingdom feuds with Mennonite cowboys.  I have a world and some characters so far, but not much in the way of a plot.  I want to tell it from multiple POVs to represent the diversity of this weird world, but have the POVs ultimately converge into one web of related events.  Whatever those events work out to be.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm in!

[Geo]

With such a concept, 'bad frontier' seems to fit better.

[Elok]

But it's not really bad as such.  Most people out there are optimistic.  Maybe "hard frontier," IDK.

[Geo]

'Harsh frontier'?

[Buster's Uncle]

This is an official nagging notice, noting that Pyrebound has not been very good since 23 August, and demanding you get back to work.

-Submitted in a spirit of brazen entitlement, a fan, etc., ect., ect.

[Elok]

I've started, stopped, scrapped, and rewritten the latest update so many times I've lost count.  I think I've finally found the answer to where I want to take it, but now I need to find time to write it.  Ugh, Covid/class/stuff.  A lot of it's just lost inertia.

[Buster's Uncle]

REFUND!

[Elok]

Wrote a few paragraphs last night, maybe one manuscript page.  Will try for more tonight, and possibly productivity will increase given looming Nativity Fast.  We shall see.

[Buster's Uncle]

Rootin' for you.

[Elok]

Updated.  Not totally 100% happy with it, but it moves the story forward through the rut I was stuck in and gets done what I needed to get done.  I can live with this version.  Now we can do all the things I was planning to do with the rest of the story.

[Buster's Uncle]

This'll do.