I know.
This site is supposed to be housing my stories but there is a distinct lack of stories present.
In short: I'm working on it.
The slightly longer answer: I've known for a bit that I didn't want to try to publish the Nerd-Do-Wells stories as books. They'd be long, for starters, because I think the characters need time and space to get through all that they need to get through. That's why each one will be broken down into episodes.
Mostly though, the publishing process seemed like an unnecessary pain. I'm not interested in making money off any of this. Don't get me wrong: I'm not going to fight anyone that wants to give me money (that's not true; I'd definitely still fight them a little) but that's not the purpose of my stories and I don't want it to be what drives my writing.
So, I thought a website would be a good way to pull everything together and make it look nice. I wasn't ready to post anything but I wanted to get the site figured out so that when I was ready, I wasn't pulling my hair out trying to get the layout and design and all of that stuff exactly right.
But still: disappointing. I know.
Where am I at with Nerd-Do-Wells? As of this post I've written drafts for the first two stories and am in the process of revising the draft for the first one. Once I'm done with at least the first round of revisions on that, I'll probably go back to drafting stories three and four. Nothing will be final until I've got at least drafts for all four stories because I figure characters and plot out as I write, so there are all sorts of retroactive ripple effects in the earlier stories as I write the later ones.
All that to say, I'm guessing it will be 8 to 12 months before I start posting story one.
Yeah. I know.
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