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"NXE Thoughts and questions"
 
   I just noticed the updated NXE title page info yesterday, and while it answered on question of mine (what the "planned" release cycle was), it raised a few others.

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.

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.

Finally, without asking for spoilers or confidential insider info, I'm curious about how Exodus 5 came about and if you have a definitive arc planned out already or if you're just sort of winging it. Since I started writing a large fanfic last year I've gotten more interested in the process as well as the result, and since you guys have probably more combined experience (both time-wise and volume of output) than anyone else out there in fanfic I figure anything I can learn from you is at least worth knowing (the good and the bad).

Thanks, and I'm really looking forward to seeing where Exodus 5 leads!

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1. "RE: NXE Thoughts and questions"
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   >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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2. "RE: NXE Thoughts and questions"
In response to message #1
 
   >>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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-- David Ben Gurion
EPU RCW #π
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