Swingers and Sailboats
It’s Nereids time, folks.
Chapter 11 is available at Ruthie’s Club today. Only one more chapter to go. So now’s the time to join Ruthie’s if you want to read the whole thing in nearly one sitting. You can get a 7-day trial membership for $9.95 (although the one-month rate of $17.95 is a better deal).
If you do the trial membership, make sure you do it after today. You don’t want the trial to expire just before Chapter 12 is published.
Anyway, back to the story. I’m really happy with how it turned out. The writing style is very different from Summer Camp. It’s more mainstream (I hope), with two PoV characters: Jack MacLean and Beth Hughes. You get to see inside their heads and follow as they get to know one another. And if you read the story at Ruthie’s Club, the artwork is fantastic—Tzratzk really brought the scenes to life.
I’ll publish the story for free once the Ruthie’s Club exclusivity period is up. A group of people got a sneak peek, though. You should ask them about it on the Forum. Personally, I think the story is worth the membership at Ruthie’s, but I completely understand that many people can’t afford to pay for stories.
In any event, look for the final chapter of Nereids on October 2, exclusively at Ruthie’s Club.
- Nick
An Interlude
“Breakdown.”
That’s the title of my new story. After I finished writing Nereids (August 1), I set a deadline for myself: I wanted to start writing something new by September 1. But what would I write? Sorry, it’s not B4. I have a couple of reasons I’m not ready to start that yet:
- I’ve been writing Summer Camp almost non-stop since August 2002. With B1-B3 and then Nereids, I’ve been in the SC Universe for a long, long time. I’m not tired of it, but…
- Once I start B4, I won’t write another story until it’s done. That’s my single-minded, ruthless discipline, which leads to the third reason…
- I have several other stories swirling in my head. (Actually, I have at least a dozen stories up there, but some of them are more ambitious than others. Some are also more fleshed-out than others.)
MacBug
Well, I discovered a genuine bug in Mac OS X. And I had my first experience with Apple Technical Support.
Before I get to the tech support experience, let me say that Apple’s online support options suck. They suck—in the immortal words of Dick Cheney—big time.
This is part-and-parcel with my only major complaint about Apple and the Mac OS in general: they’re aimed at stupid people. Yes, you read that right… stupid people. The Macintosh is the greatest computer in the world, as long as two things are true: 1) you don’t want to figure out how it really works, and 2) nothing breaks.