>>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.

Cool - I look forward to them. And yes, I remember thinking that season 3 had gotten much bigger than the previous seasons when I first read them.

>>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.

Ah, OK. I've experienced that with my own writing too. I may go back and revise my current project when its finished, but for now I'm just trying to get it written the first time :)

>>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.

Been there, done that. I had a fic do that to me a few months back. Admittedly it's a very short crack-fic, but it popped into my head in the shower one morning and I literally couldn't get any work done until I'd typed it up.

>>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. :)

OK, that makes sense. And I definitely think that not rushing things is the way to go, even if I do get impatient sometimes. Given the usual end result, it's always been worth the wait. Thanks for answering my questions!

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