Hi all,
as you Anmar fans are aware, Penny has just started a new thread called "What Milsy Did".
I happen to know that this is also a multi-part tale, but not as long as SEE - nowhere near!
So I have created another entry for it in the "Anmarian Appendices" to provide a simple click mechanism to leap straight to any one particular chapter. This entire portion of the Appendices I shall then order by author name. Unlike everywhere else I have done, these entries shall NOT be in alphabetical order.
I am including the character names and so on in the 'Cast of Characters' listing, aka the Index, which itself is also going to change even more.
I shall strip out all the blurb at the beginning, I have added some subsections, and so on and so forth.
I shall also remove the 'Julina of Blackstone' bit from the title of it. The new title shall be "Anmar's Cast of Characters, Gazetteer, Glossary and Index"
For all those who may have stored the URL to it, I shall post the new URL here as soon as I have it.
*** AND HERE IT IS *** ... http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/48235/anmars-cast-char...
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I am still spending many hours each day on future Julina episodes, although I find it necessary to say that plummeting reading figures are given me cause to question whether or not people still want to see it. This time last year, most episodes were getting 1800 reads, my latest has less than 600.
Not encouraging at all.
Each episode involves hours and hours of double-checking, cross referencing and the like, on top of the writing itself.
If you guys don't want it, please tell me. I can free up half my waking hours.
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Enjoy your day, may it bring all you wish of it.
Julia.
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Comments
I must apologise
To Julia, for making all this extra work for her.
Without her help and assistance the quality of the stories of Anmar and those who live there would be a great deal poorer.
I use the "Anmar Appendices" frequently while plotting and back-checking. "What were the names of the armsmen Merek assigned to Milsy?" "How many bells are there during the day when this event takes place?"
If I couldn't use the on-line references I would be at the mercy of a shoe-box full of hand-written notes. There's no chance I could set up and keep up-to-date any kind of computer-based reference. Despite appearances and a long career in IT I'm just not that organised. If I had attempted such a thing SEE would still not be finished :(
Once again, all my writings have benefited from the help Julia has provided free of charge. Regrettably it appears that her own writings have suffered because she has been keeping the Appendices up-to-date. This could become awkward as there are links and references between almost all the stories that have been written so far. I trust that this is only a temporary state of affairs.
Penny
I for one...
Appreciate all the work you've done and continue to do.
I am still reading and enjoying Julina's adventures.
Abigail Drew.
I Really Enjoy Julina
It took a while for me to start reading the Julina series, but once I started, I found that I really enjoy it. Thank you for all the work. To me 600 readers seems like a good number. It's your life and time though. I'll appreciate what you've done already if you decide to stop.
I am sorry to hear about your reading figures
Early on in Julina I was one of the few people who read and commented and supported your writing this story despite it being well written and a pleasure to read. You found it 'soul destroying' as you said in response of my comments as it seems people were ignoring you. It is still a great story and I would lie to encourage you to continue.
There is that hackneyed phrase that you should write for yourself but it is valid nonetheless, after all you must make it to episode 998 ;)
Big grin
Actually, I won't have to, as the '999' thing is going to disappear by the weekend.
That said, then I must needs also say that I value your constancy, and always have.
Thanks
Joolz
New URL for the Anmarian Index thingy
http://bigclosetr.us/topshelf/fiction/48235/anmars-cast-char...