>First off, thank you for the HTML updated if Exodus 1 & TMP - they
>convert to .mobi format for easy portable reading very nicely. I look
>forward to the conversion of Exodus 2 & 3 when you get to them.

Exodus 2 is basically done, it just needs another QC pass; working on 3:4 now. The going gets slower as the series goes on, because the episodes get longer and more complicated.

>Second, you mentioned that when you converted Exodus 1 that you didn't
>make major text alterations even when you wanted to. I'm curious (if
>you're willing to share) as to what you wanted to change but didn't,
>in whatever level of detail you choose to provide.

Nothing specific springs to mind now, and I wasn't talking about substantive plot changes or anything as radical as that. It's just that it's old and there's some gnarly bits. Clumsy phrasing, poor choices of word, that kind of thing. There are a couple of places where I noticed I'd actually used the wrong word, as in one that completely didn't mean what I thought it meant, and I've fixed those as I've run across them, but places where it was just "weegh, I could've done that better," I've mostly left alone.

>Finally, without asking for spoilers or confidential insider info, I'm
>curious about how Exodus 5 came about

Yeah, you and me both.

No, seriously, I had no intention of continuing NXE before about the second week of February. I'd been rereading bits of the series, and there was that conversation about the music on this board, and then the concept for X5 just sort of... arrived.

>and if you have a definitive arc
>planned out already or if you're just sort of winging it.

Sort of both. We know the broad strokes of the series A-plot, and bits and pieces of what happens along the way, but exactly what course it all takes is being allowed to develop organically. That's the usual way we work around here, and although it sometimes—all right, often—leads to awkward delays while things work themselves out, I think the end product is usually better for it. Sort of like aging a whisky, except nothing like that. :)

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